New toilets for Chegutu residents

By Lovemore Chazingwa

The need for improved sanitation while enhancing access to convenient, safer and healthier environments has seen Chegutu Town council providing individual household toilets in place of a communal set-up which used to service Ward 4 in old Pfupajena Township.

The new project being undertaken by the local authority will see each household owning a seater and flash system as opposed to the squart, non-flashing infrasture existing at the abandoned toilets.

Water, health and sanitation engineer, Ralph Kunda told a group of touring journalists this month that council has already embarked on the project to provide better facilities for the residents in this part of town.

“As you may be aware, J section was built in the 1960s for single quarter houses. Now they’re families using those same common toilets. One needed to walk at least two hundred metres to the communal toilet.

The old toilet system itself had challenges on recurrent blockages, making it difficult for residents. We had an outcry on proper use of the toilets. We at some point upgraded and rehabilitated those but, did not yield desired results.

“Our intervention now is to convert the whole system and replace it with construction of individual household toilets. This project sits on a new 620m sewer pipeline. As we speak, individual households are in the process of connecting their toilets to the network. The network caters for at least 2600 heads from 380 aggregate families.
“We have under this project, four blocks. On other sections, we’re just upgrading the same to connect to the main network. We doing both upgrading and reconstruction. Along the whole section we have parts that we upgrade and rehabilitate depending on our needs assessment.”

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