MINISTER of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha has disclosed that the water coverage countrywide is currently sitting at 72 percent with the sanitation coverage sitting at 54 percent. And Mposha says the outbreak of cholera has been building up over the last three years. Meanwhile, Mposha says people use shallow wells because they don’t want to pay water bills, among other reasons. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC TV’s Sunday Interview, Mposha revealed that the country was sitting on 72 and 54 percent water and sanitation coverage respectively. “The whole country now we are sitting at 72 percent in terms of water coverage. So we still have a significant portion of our country which is not serviced. So 72...

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