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Kwekwe City Council is set to procure new pumps to ease water shortages which the city is experiencing.

The council, which also supplies water to Redcliff town, has embarked on a project to refurbish it’s pump stations to ease the water woes in the city and to boast the city’s water pumping capacity.

This problem is set to be a thing of the past as the city is in the processes of buying new pumping equipment and refurbish its pump station.

Kwekwe town clerk Mr Emmanuel Musara said council had mobilised funds to refurbish and buy new water pumping equipment. He said the city was on average losing at least 50 percent of treated water to leaks.

“Our pipes are now aged and as council sooner rather than later we will be replacing the pipes in phases to deal with the water leaks,” said Mr Musara.

“We have allocated some funds and we have advertised for a tender and we are willing to engage companies that are willing to supply us with a multi stage water pump and motor, and refurbish our pump stations so that we boast our pumping capacity.

“The old pumps and motor are now rusty and have aged, so we what to replace them with new pumps in order to boast our pumping capacity.”

Mr Musara said the city was growing fast, hence the need to increase pumping capacity.

“The pumping capacity was designed to supply a specified number of households,” he said.

“As the city is growing, infrastructure should also grow; new private property land developers should now pay a nominal fee and have modalities with council pertaining water boost.”