South Africa’s plan to address scarcity of treated water in one of the country’s northern most municipalities – buy millions of litres of the resource from Zimbabwe.
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Senzo Mchunu, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with his Zimbabwean counterpart, Dr Anxious Masuka, for the sale of treated water from Zimbabwe to a border town in northern Limpopo.
Musina has a total population of just over 132 thousand people across 192 villages and one town. It is around 15kms from the Zimbabwean border. The director general said that the cheaper alternative is to make use of water from Beitbridge in Zimbabwe, as the water there is “underutilized.”
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