Monday, January 14, 2008

Zimbabwe's Misery Deepens

The damage the madness of Robert Mugabe has caused the people of Zimbabwe at times seems almost bottomless.

Today the Zimbabwe National Water Authority announced to the citizens of the capital, Harare, and the nearby town of Chitungwiza that all water supplies will be cut off for a week. Imagine being dirt poor in the midst of an economy in complete shambles and being told that you'll have to do without water for a week.

The government agency is blaming the water disruption on power failures at the region's waterworks.

Waterborne diseases are already spreading through Harare and are expected to increase.

Water authority workers have told UN observers that the utility's problems aren't caused by power failures but the inability of the water authority to obtain chemicals to treat the water from Malawi and Zambia.

Some locals blame the problems on mismanagement triggered in 2001 when Mugabe's ZANU-PF government replaced elected city officials with its own commission. There are reports that industrial and residential effluents are being pumped into the city's water supply dam which might explain the discoloured water that has been coming from city taps.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What did you expect from a socialist government??!! Bring in the bulldozers to bury the bodies!

Same story, different country! When will the world ever learn that socialism kills more people than anything else!

The Mound of Sound said...

You seem to have an extremely poor grasp of socialism. The ultimate socialist states today are in Scandinavia. I think you'll find their longevity rates are the world's highest and their violent death rates the world's lowest. You need to really inform yourself before spouting this sort of nonsense.