By Tovin Ngombe
Four wards in Sinazongwe District has been hit with critical shortage of clean drinking water and villagers are walking for 10 to five kilometres to fetch for it discloses Sinazongwe ward councillors. Namazambwe ward councillor Benard Nzeka said people in his area wake up at 02 and 03 to go and fetch for cleaning drinking water over a distance of 10 kilometers. Mr. Nzeka who is the only Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) councillor among the 14 councillors in the district said the problem of water has been going for many years. He said most of the streams have dried up because the district was a drought prone area and animals for people who do not live near
Lake
Kariba have died. Mr. Nzeka explained that his ward has 23 villages and there are only six boreholes out of which one was not working. He has since made a passionate appeal to government to intervene for people to have easy access to clean drinking water.  Sinazongwe Council Chairperson Smart Sibalwi said people in Muuka wards has also resorted to digging trenches of about five metres dip to  fetch for water and most of them walk for five kilomters to access water. Mr. Sibalwi noted that Muuka, Tekelo, Mweenda, Mabinga, and Namazambwe ward need government’s urgent attention to help the people from the suffering they have endured for so many years. Mabinga ward councillor Benson Muleya said seven villages in his areas have been critically hit with a critical shortage of access to clean drinking water. [ZANIS]
