Chitungwiza starts $2,5m sewer rehabilitation

CHITUNGWIZA Municipality has begun a $2,5 million sewage rehabilitation programme amid fears of a cholera outbreak similar to the one in 2008 due to spilling raw sewer and a serious water crisis.

The rehabilitation programme being undertaken by a Chinese company is the first major sewer project in the last seven years after the town became an epicentre of the cholera epidemic that claimed over 4 000 lives.

Chitungwiza Municipality director of works Engineer Maxwell Karenyi yesterday confirmed the development.

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