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Public Urged To Stop Shaking Hands To Curb Cholera
The city has suffered periodic water cuts for years as the crumbling economy has caused widespread power shortages that often leave pumps idle.
But the city-wide cut appeared aimed at stopping the flow of untreated water around Harare, which is at the epicentre of the cholera epidemic that has claimed 425 lives since late August - most in just the last month.
The complete shutdown of water services caught many families by surprise, sending people into the streets carrying containers to search for water from wells or cisterns and adding to the hardships of daily life under President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Some residents have resorted to digging shallow wells in their yards in the hope of finding water, while making another hole to serve as a latrine - which could worsen the sanitary conditions that caused the cholera epidemic.
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) stopped pumping because it had failed to obtain chemicals to treat the water supply, the government mouthpiece Herald newspaper said.
"Most parts of Harare - including the city centre - did not get water yesterday amid claims by Zinwa staff that the authority had stopped pumping after it ran out of one of the essential chemicals," the Herald reported.
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