The Bulawayo City Council Friday said it was reducing the water shedding period to once a week following significant inflows into the city’s supply dams.
Staff Reporter
Mayor Martin Moyo told journalists that the new schedule would become effective on Monday.
Council has been cutting water for at least two days a week in most parts of the city after it stopped pumping water from three supply dams last year.
“The public is advised that the City of Bulawayo will as from Monday January 13 2014 reduce the water shedding period from 48 hours per week to 24 hours,” Moyo said.
“This has been made possible by some inflows into the city’s dams which have brought the overall combined percentage total to 40, 4% as at 8 January 2014.”
However, the mayor urged residents to continue conserving water to avoid the rapid depletion of the supply dams.
Insiza Dam remains the city’s largest source of water and is now 54.8% full, Mtshabezi (94%), Lower Ncema (26, 1%), Umzingwane (21.5%), Inyankuni (8%) and Upper Ncema (9, 7%).
