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For Harare, it鈥檚 no money, no water
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The more than 2 million residents of Zimbabwe鈥檚 capital and surrounding towns are now without water after authorities shut down the city鈥檚 main treatment plant, raising new fears about disease after a recent cholera outbreak while the economy crumbles further.
Officials in Harare have struggled to raise foreign currency to import water treatment chemicals; about US$2.7 million is needed per month. Meanwhile, water levels in polluted dams are dropping because of drought.
鈥淓veryone living in Harare is affected; they don鈥檛 have water,鈥 City Council spokesman Michael Chideme said, as residents turned to options such as bottled water or wells.
Chideme called it dangerous because of the risk of water-borne diseases: 鈥淢aybe the situation will be resolved by tomorrow but we are not sure.鈥
The capital now frequently records cases of diseases such as typhoid due to water shortages and dilapidated sewerage. Some residents are forced to get water from shallow, unsafe wells and defecate in the open.
Twenty-six people died last year in a cholera outbreak, leading President Emmerson Mnangagwa to express pulic dismay that Zimbabweans were suffering from a 鈥渕edieval鈥 disease.
The country once was a bright spot in southern Africa but the economy has collapsed in recent years, and foreign currency is hard to come by.
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