The capital city is once again this weekend going to experience water shortages as the city fathers struggle to maintain and efficiently provide the precious liquid.
The non availability of water to residents for the second time this weekend, according to the city’s spokesperson Michael Chideme, has been caused by the “continued”, rehabilitation works at the Morton Jaffray Water Works.
Chideme told the state media that the planned shutdown from Saturday the 21^st to Sunday the 22^nd, is meant to take advantage of the winter period when water usage will be low.
He said they were confident the capacity of Morton Jaffray would increase by 120 mega litres to about 600 mega litres with the project completion earmarked for year end.
Repair works to Morton Jaffray are part of the multi-million dollar Harare Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme meant to improve water supply which continues to deteriorate.
Harare continues to lose treated water through leakages from obsolete pipes.
According to the local authorities over 60% of treated water from Morton Jaffray is lost in transit leaving 40% being the real amount of water accessed by people.