CHAPTER 7: Water Resource Management, Supply and …

CHAPTER 7: Water Resource Management, Supply and Sanitation THE SETTING sector. The result was a large scale mobilization of humanitarian assistance by the international Zimbabwe is a semi-arid country heavily community to help the country address the reliant on regular rains (generally November immediate risks posed by the cholera outbreak to April). Mean annual rainfall is low and and to support the rehabilitation of Water many rivers in the drier parts of the country are Supply and sanitation services in urban and not perennial. Zimbabwe has made extensive rural areas. As a result, the number of cases investments in large, small, and medium dams, reported in 2009-10 declined substantially. The though current utilization is only about 22 challenge for the decade ahead is to rebuild the percent of mean annual run-off. Zimbabwe's existing dilapidated infrastructure and access management of its Water resources is critical to to services to the levels that prevailed more its economic growth.

The Environment Fund, provides for the formulation of environmental quality standards and environmental plans, provides for ... The Department of Water Resources assists the Ministry to carry out the following statutory functions: • Development of water policies, laws and

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