SPEECH BY HONOURABLE SAMUEL SIPEPA NKOMO (MP), MINISTER OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT, AT THE OCASSION OF THE WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATIONS
31 MARCH 2011
GWERU CIVIC CENTRE
Commemorated every year on the 22nd of March, World Water Day is a United Nations (UN) sanctioned event focusing attention on the
Harare Metropolitan Province gets its raw water from Lake Chivero, Seke, Harava and Manyame dams.The raw water is treated at the City’s two major water treatment works, Morton Jaffray (in Norton) and Prince Edward Water Treatment Works (along the Harare-Chitungwiza Road). Once the water is certified fit for human consumption, it is stored in reservoirs from where it is pumped to different parts of the City and its satellite towns.