Harare city council which has been pumping contaminated water to residents, is today shutting down all its water supplies from the Jaffray Water Treatment Plant.
 
Council announced in a statement that they are shutting down all supplies from the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant from 1600hrs on Friday.
 
The shutdown will stretch to 2200hrs on Sunday the 11th of January 2015.
 
The purpose of the shutdown is to allow for the installation new pumps at the plant.
 
An announcement by Harare West legislator Jessie Majome read, “Last chance to stock up water! until 1600hrs today- if your taps are are not yet dry already form our usual ‘normal’ Monday to Thursday drought . Please remember safety first- to keep all water containers sealed and away from young children who can drown in them, even just buckets, and to shut all taps tightly to avoid flooding homes when the water returns hopefully on Sunday 2200hrs as promised.
I’m disappointed that the Municipality is not supplying bowsers and is not maintaining and servicing the 4 boreholes I drilled and donated to it with my 2012 CDF, for times like this. CDF is a once off disbursement and cannot sustain machinery maintenance hence donation to Council would make the project sustainable. There’s one each at Sherwood Drive between Hillmorton and Clavering Roads, Ashdown Park Shops, Haig Park cnr Latchmore and Lauchlan Aves (drilled by an anonymous donor but which I repaired), Marlborough District Office at Civic Centre, and Chichera Plot Good Hope( whose tank was destroyed by my 2008 elections ZANU PF rival for the ‘crime’ of ‘having been installed by an MDC’ MP but whose replacement I sourced but am seeking the costs of remounting it)

These are your boreholes Harare Westerners, please form committees to secure them andensure Council maintains them, please inbox me so we can coordinate this as Council’s failure is most disappointing. My plan has been to drill at least 8 boreholes in 2 phases in each of our 2 wards with CDF. I’ve done phase 1 i.e. half of this with the only CDF I got in 2012. Since we were promised it in this year’s budget I hope I plan to complete this by phase 2 but I am not too happy to donate this resource to Council again without a maintenance plan commitment from it and you the community.
Thank you to the churches and individuals who are generous to allow us to draw water at this and all our times of need. God bless you!
Your MP