By Mbekezeli Ncube
WHILE a majority of Bulawayo residents have to deal with the reality of receiving running water once a week, it is a different story for Ward 27 in Pumula South’s Habek high density suburb where locals are about to cloak a year without water.
NewZimbabwe.com has learnt that the precious liquid last reached Habek taps in the early weeks of last year.
They now rely on the Bulawayo Water and Sanitation Response Programme in which city council bowsers are wheeled to their area to distribute the necessity once or twice a week.
In an interview with several residents from the area, they expressed their disappointment with the local authority they accuse of continuously exposing them to cholera and diarrhoea outbreaks through failure to restore uninterrupted water supplies.