A number of teachers at Gwelutshena Primary School in Nkayi district are said to be seeking transfers because of frustrations due to lack of reliable water supplies at the institution.
The school has no borehole.
In separate interviews, teachers said they were spending most of their time looking for water instead of teaching.
“We have to walk long distances in search of water; it affects us in our planning,” one of the teachers said.
Another teacher said: “We end up buying water from villagers.
“It is very demotivating, hence the majority of us are seeking transfers.”
Nkayi Rural District Council chief executive officer, Silibele Mpofu acknowledged the water crisis in Gwelutshena.
" The Gwelutshena area has had a water problem for a long time,” Mpofu said.
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“They tried to drill boreholes under the presidential borehole drilling scheme without success.”
Mpofu said the RDC is considering engaging private partners to ferry water from nearby rivers to the school.
“The nearby clinic is also having the same water crisis,” he said.
