By BRIAN HATYOKA
in Zimba –
ZIMBA District Commissioner (DC) Elizabeth Kalaluka has called for construction of more dams in the district to mitigate the shortage of water.
Ms Kalaluka said there was need for authorities to build more dams for human and animal consumption.
She noted that the water levels in Sianankanga Dam, the only one in the district, had gone down.
Speaking in an interview in Zimba yesterday, Ms Kalaluka said most construction projects in the district had slowed down because of lack of water.
“We tried to sink boreholes in some parts of Zimba, but we could not find water underground. The solution is that Government should help us make more dams unlike sinking boreholes,” she said.
Ms Kalaluka said Zimba did not have rivers or streams and only depended on rain water to fill up the dam.
She said Southern Water and Sewerage Company could not pump enough water from the dam, and that this is what was causing water shortages in the district.
She also said Zimba had witnessed massive infrastructure development from the time the Patriotic Front Government declared it as a district.
Some contractors working on various Government projects cited lack of water as a major challenge.
