Harare City Council (HCC) has announced the imminent shutdown of water production citing a shortage of Aluminium Sulphate.
In a statement, the local government authority said all parts of the city will be affected.
Read the statement below:
๐ก๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐๐๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฑ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐น๐๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ฆ๐๐น๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ.
The City would like to notify you that due to critically low stocks of aluminium sulphate, water production has been reduced to stretch valuable stocks from 20 hours of operation to 30 hours from 2000hrs yesterday.
This means that we will be running out of the product and ceasing operations around midnight today.
Currently, one pump is running to Warren Control and one to Lonchinvar which means that the supply level is almost insignificant and all parts of the city will be affected.
Our supplier of liquid aluminium sulphate has suffered a breakdown at their manufacturing plant which they hope will be repaired by Saturday morning and will resume deliveries later on the course of that day.
Granular aluminium is only expected to start arriving in the country from Monday 13 February 2023.
Efforts are underway to seek an alternative delivery sooner to cut the length of the shutdown.
Any inconveniences caused are sincerely regretted.
