Story by Jerold Sasa
GOVERNMENT has pledged to support Marondera municipality’s plans to upgrade its water treatment plant to ensure the provision of safe and clean water to residents.
This Monday, Mashonaland East Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Advocate Itayi Ndudzo, toured the water treatment plant, where it was disclosed that the upgrade would cost US$18 million, prompting plans for a public-private partnership.
“As a local authority, we are in the process of upgrading our water treatment plant as we have faced perennial water challenges for decades as the current water treatment plant can no longer satisfy demand,” Marondera Mayor Councilor Chengetayi Murowa said.
“As government, we are there to support such initiatives as water is key to the standards of living of our citizenry,” Honourable Ndudzo said.
Honourable Ndudzo also toured the Dombotombo flats which are being constructed under the Second Republic’s national housing delivery programme meant to offer affordable and decent accommodation to people by creating 220 000 housing units by this year.
The Dombotombo project has four blocks of flats which will house 64 families and are expected to be completed this year.
“We are expecting to have completed these units by this year. We hope they ease accommodation for our civil servants who have been facing challenges in that regard,” the Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities’s Mashonaland East Deputy Director, Engineer Wonderful Mashawi.
The Second Republic has been on a development trajectory which has massive development in water provision and housing delivery among others as the nation journeys towards Vision 2030.
