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Courtney Matende Midlands Reporter
A power failure at Gwenhoro treatment plant has resulted in Gweru city going for moths without portable water.

The situation is worse for some suburbs like Mkoba 15, 18 and 20 that had gone for more than three months without water.

GCC director of engineering services Engineer Robson Manatsa confirmed the development yesterday and said Zesa was working on the issue.

“We haven’t resumed pumping water at Gwenhoro treatment plant because Zesa is still working on the fault,” he said. “Zesa electricians are the ones who know the kind of a fault they are attending to. Unfortunately we don’t have capacity to truck water from Gwenhoro dam,” he said.

As a result, residents are resorting to using water from unprotected sources and some from boreholes some of which were condemned during the typhoid outbreak which claimed lives of seven people and left over 2 000 needing medical assistance in the city.

Clr Makombe said the local authority had repaired all leaks along the main pipeline which had been causing erratic water supplies in the city.

“After rectifying the problems that have been causing erratic supplies in the city, thieves then stole copper cables,” he said.