Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda last week said the city had received a lot of complaints especially from low-density areas like Borrowdale and Avondale concerning bulk water suppliers’ activities.
“Some of these people who are in the business of selling water are abstracting large amounts of underground water, affecting their neighbours, especially those who are downstream,” Masunda said.
“You see tankers all over the place and we have a problem with this abstraction of unusually large amounts of water.”
There have been reports that some residents had resorted to sinking boreholes in their properties without council approval.
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“We have not had any problems with the sinking of boreholes for domestic use,” Masunda said.
“One cannot sink a borehole without approval from the designated local authority and a designated drilling company does the drilling on behalf of the City of Harare.”
A University of Zimbabwe researcher, Professor Chris Magadza, warned recently that Harare water table has sunk from 15 to 30 metres within the last decade, something some people have partly linked to the sinking of boreholes to avert water shortages.
