The Mixed Harare Residents Affiliation (CHRA) has strongly endorsed a switch by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Fee (ZHRC) to subpoena the City of Harare over persistent water contamination and ongoing cholera outbreaks — calling it a vital step toward justice for the capital’s residents.
In a commentary, CHRA acknowledged the ZHRC’s determination to summon city officers marks a “clear affirmation” of electorate’ prolonged-standing complaints over authorities negligence and dangerous water management practices particularly at Lake Chivero, Harare’s predominant water source.
“This intervention is not only welcome but long overdue. For years, residents have cried out about raw sewage, industrial discharge, and solid waste polluting Lake Chivero,” acknowledged David Pasipanodya, CHRA Chairperson.
The affiliation has warned that miserable enforcement of water air pollution felony pointers has turned serious infrastructure correct into a public health time bomb.
Both Lake Chivero and Darwendale Dam, CHRA notes, have severely compromised water quality and quantity, inserting millions in possibility — especially in suburbs reliant on borehole water.
CHRA acknowledged the city’s water distribution community is riddled with vulnerabilities, ensuing in recontamination of treated water. This, mixed with miserable planning has fueled habitual cholera outbreaks in Harare.
“We have overwhelming evidence that boreholes in the western and southern suburbs are contaminated with dangerous bacteria like coliforms, which cause deadly waterborne diseases,” Pasipanodya acknowledged.
CHRA is now urging the authorities to institute urgent reforms in environmental and water governance.
Key amongst their demands is the advent of a ingesting water inspectorate — housed below the Ministry of Effectively being or one other self ample authority — to be definite that dependable oversight, checks and balances and public accountability on water quality.
“This is a crisis of leadership and accountability. Harare’s residents deserve better. They deserve safe, clean, and potable water as guaranteed by the Constitution,” the affiliation acknowledged.
CHRA has prolonged been a vocal recommend for residents’ rights in Harare consistently highlighting lapses in carrier beginning and environmental governance.
