Zimbabwe: No Water From the Tap. They're Asked to Pay a Tax Anyway.

Zimbabwe: No Water From the Tap. They're Asked to Pay a Tax Anyway.

Harare, Zimbabwe -- With Chinese bank loans overdue, Harare charges residents for major upgrades that were never completed.

No Water From the Tap. They’re Asked to Pay a Tax Anyway.

Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe Violet Razau fetches water from a makeshift well outside her home in Mabvuku, a suburb east of Harare, Zimbabwe. She has had no access to running water for years and says her 13-year-old son has never seen water flow from a tap. Residents of greater Harare like Razau are now being asked to help repay a multimillion-dollar loan for water infrastructure upgrades they say were never delivered. The promised upgrades never…

There Is No Water From The Tap, But Harare Residents Still Have To Pay - The Bulrushes

Harare – The cholera outbreak that swept through Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 killed more than 4 000 people and sickened nearly 100 000. Parts of Harare and its surrounding suburbs were especially hard hit, and in the aftermath, attention fell on the unreliability of the capital city’s aging infrastructure. The government ultimately secured a US$144 million loan from China Exim Bank to overhaul the city’s water treatment network. The promised upgrades …