Kunzvi Dam pipeline delays threaten Harare’s water security

HARARE’S long-promised answer to its water crisis is moving slower underground than behind the dam wall, with only 4.5 kilometres of the 48-kilometre Kunzvi-Harare pipeline laid, about 9% of the total, a senior government official has said.

Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs and Devolution minister Charles Tawengwa told a joint Provincial Development Committee and Provincial Coordinating Committee meeting that the dam itself is roughly 74% complete and impounding has begun. 

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