Dear President Hakainde Hichilema,
Sir, as you head home this evening from your office, you will likely see these women captured in these photos. You will likely see them because they have become a familiar feature along Mosi-O-Tunya road, the road your motorcade uses frequently.
They risk their lives crossing the busy road in search of water because Lusaka Water decided to cut down hours of supply significantly for a whole 60 days because of a leak at Iolanda water plant. Thanks to the nearby Mum’s Clinic in Woodlands, the women are allowed to draw water from the facility.
Granted the leak needed to be attended to but the timing couldn’t have been more shambolic. Mr President, your Minister of Water and his team are aware that we are now in the summer and historically, the water table is at its lowest this time of the year in Lusaka and most of the household and industrial boreholes are almost dying up.
I am not an Engineer but common sense tells me that since this was a structural issue, a remedy could have been sought to either delay the shutdown or deal with it with minimum operational disruptions.
I have not heard your office issue any statement on this issue which in my books fits the definition of a crisis, you cannot have a an entire city going for majority of 60 days without any water and somehow it feels like business as usual.
Please direct Lusaka Water to start setting up emergency water points using bowsers in hard hit areas that have no boreholes. If this is not done, the environment is fertile for a major public health crisis.
Mr President, access to water and sanitation are recognized by the UN as human rights, your team at the Ministry of Water and LWSC are therefore denying your people this right which I find to be unacceptable.
By Changwe Kabwe
Has got a magic wand to create water? He’s just an overpompous individual. Not different from all us.
So Lusaka City Council has to wait for Zambia’s President to “direct Lusaka Water to start setting up emergency water points using bowsers in hard hit areas that have no boreholes?” So Lusaka City Council doesnt know that If this is not done, the environment is fertile for a major public health crisis?
Mulenya mulelapila!!!!!
60 years after independence….heartbreaking to see such images
Only last week some Upnd lackey was boasting about how they have improved water delivery in Lusaka…as usual it was mirage like the Kazungula massive development?
You will continue crying until you die of thirst . Did we not warn you about this useless upnd party. Pf was busy building infrastructure but you decide to vote in a president who is good at undervaluing resources for his own kickbacks
Very urgent matter and soon a health crisis will hit at the doorstep and hope President and his team will respond immediately and deploy ZNS and Zambia Army to ACT
The water company has not closed. It’s hard at work fixing decayed pipes. In rural areas they go through this daily and you don’t blame HH for it. If the PF had built water infrastructure in 2021, it would still be around to provide water. Does the PF want to accept blame for the leaking pipes? Do not give politics a bad name. At its core, politics is the means by which humans address collective issues in society. Unfortunately the PF polluted what’s meant to be a service to society. If civilised society has to continue, there’s no alternative to politics.
Fuseke! You are in power yet still dreaming about pf. Take responsibility for once in your failed lives.
@ Spaka
It amazes me how some people think certain individuals have super powers to end their problems they forget that the Supreme leader Ayatollah Bandit Hakainde Hichilema is just a demagogue Politician just like all other Politicians
The work of the president is misunderstood in Zambia