Zimbabwe's Harare to restore water supply after three-day cutoff

An electrical fault at Harare's biggest water pump station has left most of the city without water for the past three days, with city officials promising that supplies would be restored Thursday.

The central business district and several suburbs to the northern and eastern suburbs and the heavy industrial area have been without water since Tuesday, but the city's spokesperson Michael Chideme told Xinhua Thursday that the fault had been rectified and residents would start receiving water soon.

"They have just started pumping and water will be trickling into the central business district soon," he said.

Many residents had resorted to unprotected wells and streams for water despite a recent typhoid outbreak that has claimed one life in the high-density suburb of Mbare. Endit