December 19, 2024
GOVERNMENT’S capacity to deal with floods has been brought into question following its dismal failure to mitigate against the floods that wreaked havoc around the country in the last few weeks when incessant rains fell. With early warnings of the consequences of heavy rains that lashed most parts…
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA)’s budgetary allocation of US$76 000 000 from a bid of US$212 810 000 for 2014 was not enough to allow for the relocation of people affecting by the Tokwe-Murkosi dam, where flooding has forced villagers to evacuate.The Tokwe-Murkosi resettlement exercise was not…
A DECISION to change the initial design for the Tokwe-Murkosi Dam could be behind the present structural challenges now threatening the multi-million dollar reservoir. …