The Bulawayo City Council (bcc) has revealed that it is running out of water chemicals and this could be fatal on the issue of water supply in the City.
The local authority revealed that it has completely run out of Ammonia and only has a limited supply of aluminium sulphate.The later is used as a flocculating agent in the purification of drinking water whilst the later is used in conjunction with chlorine to produce potable water.
The City Mayor Councillor Thaba Moyo assured the public that there was no need for them to panic as the situation is under control. He added that the local authouty is working on how to raise funds to purchase the needed chemicals.
Unicef withdrew from a multimillion-dollar water treatment partnership with local authorities in which the United Nations agency assisted councils with procuring water treatment chemicals.
The Deputy Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Mr Sesel Zvidzai told The Sunday News team that they are aware that some local authorities are struggling to acquire water chemicals supply after the Unicef pull out and it is for this reason that they are intervening.
He said they were also engaging Unicef authorities in the country to resume full-scale assistance if the situation did not improve.
A question of interest is why did UNICEF withdraw???
ReplyDeletei do not understand how the water problem is to worsen since we are from the raining season.
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