Critical water shortage has severely hit parts of Chipata town in Eastern province since last Friday after water pipe was damaged during road construction works.
Eastern Water and Sewerage Company Managing Director Wamuwi Changani disclosed during a media briefing in Chipata yesterday that Sable Construction Company damaged the 280 millimeter asbestos water pipe on Kanjala road.
The affected areas are Kanjala, Little Bombay,Chipata Motel, old Jim and Jere areas.
He added that the most hit of the area was Chipata Motel adding that the company would send a water baser to cushion the problem.
He urged the residents in the affected areas to pay attention to the schedule so that they do not miss the opportunity of access to water.
The Director assured the residents that water supply would be restored by May 14, since the company had already managed to source for the materials.
And Mr Changani stated that the utility company would continue to engage stakeholders to relate on ways of how to protect infrastructure without damaging and causing problems such as the bursting of pipes.
He stated that the company would continue meeting with stakeholders to ensure coordination improved and infrastructure protection to avoid inconveniencing the residents.
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Sounds like good news coz if Rottweiler Bulldog RB would go for his retreat or working weekend in Chipata then he would hopefully get cholera and die. That pipe wasn’t broken by accident. Watch your fat behind, old man
These mema na tuvi companies are a let down.
Sable is a useless company time memorial…
No sorry after death. Did the water utility company and Seable meet and discuss the need to observe the water lines before work started? This shows how ill and sick our leaders are in such important issues. Do they care when ones has water or not? 40 years after indipendence we cant know how dip or shallow water pipes are in our areas. Please Seable and water utility companies you are the ones who are making the government fail to govern properly; when you fail to do simple plus and minus arithmetic, what happens when it comes to calculus. Or you just don’t care!