BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart has said there were are no funds to provide long-term solutions to the city’s dilapidated sewage system.
The mayor on Friday last week said their efforts to fix the sewage system were being hindered by lack of funds, adding that the system, which was 40 years old, required an overhaul.
“We try to respond to sewer bursts as quickly as possible throughout the city, but our staff is battling to keep up,” Coltart said.
He added that there were no long-term solutions to the problem.
“There are few short-term measures to eradicate this problem. The city’s infrastructure has not been adequately maintained for over 40 years,” he said.
“We need to invest several millions of United States dollars to rehabilitate the entire system.”
Residents told Southern Eye that the sewer bursts had become worse because of the water rationing currently being implemented by the local authority.
“Sewer bursts have always been an issue to our lives, but they have become worse due to the constant water-shedding that is happening. We are subjected to worsening conditions everyday and it is affecting our health,” one resident from Pumula South said.
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Another resident from Cowdray Park said they were experiencing the worst scenarios due to sewer bursts.
“Council should just repair the whole sewer system because whenever they fix the affected points, it doesn’t take long before the bursts happen again. We are subjected to the worsening scenarios because of this.”
