Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene January - February 2016 vol.11 no.1 | Page 9
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He also noted that some residents associate cholera
with witchcraft. “Some of them have run away from the
isolation centres but the team is tracing them,” he said.
Suspected cholera cases have been confined in two
treatment centres.
He said the borehole drilling exercise fell under the Rural
Sanitation Programme.
Zimbabwe
Tight Water Schedule for City
Zambia
Zambia 50 Boreholes to Be Sunk in Kapiri
Council workers examining water pipe at Morton
Water drilling in Zambia
The Chinese and German governments have commenced
the sinking of 50 boreholes in Ngabwe and Mukubwe
chiefdoms to help improve water supply in the areas, Kapiri
Mposhi Member of Parliament (MP) Eddie Musonda has
said
Mr Musonda said 35 boreholes would be sunk in Ngabwe
Chiefdom while, 15 would be in Chief Mu