Gweru expansion burdens water infrastructure

THE sprouting of peri-urban settlements in the Midlands capital is burdening the existing old infrastructure run by Gweru City Council, a senior council official has said.

Town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza said the city was struggling to provide adequate water to residents and the rapid urban expansion was an extra load on the city’s ability to adequately provide water to all areas.

“Right now, our water pumping capacity is 60 megalitres per day and if we are to add new residential developments, there is need to double that figure,” Gwatipedza said last week at a meeting where the Land Commission chaired by Justice Tendai Uchena was making inquiries into the sale of State land in and around the Midlands province dating back to 2005.

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