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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The City of Bulawayo said that it has requested ZESA to give them advance notices of at least an hour before power cuts to allow the local authority to shut down the pumps properly.<\/p>\n

Bulawayo City Council has been spending millions of dollars purchasing and installing new water pumps at its main pumping stations to ease Bulawayo\u2019s water problems.<\/p>\n

This was said by acting council director of engineering services, Sikhumbuzo Ncube during a stakeholders briefing meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ncube said unscheduled power cuts were damaging water pumps. The Sunday News quoted Ncube as saying:<\/p>\n

The kind of pumps that we have need proper shutdown of at least an hour or so. The challenge is that there is no proper power cut schedule which then affects our pumps.<\/p>\n

Council has requested ZESA to give advance notices of at least an hour to enable procedural shutdown of pumps.<\/p>\n

We have also engaged the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) and this led to the installation of a 500 Kva transformer with enough capacity to power one booster for the pumps.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe is suffering a prolonged power shortage, especially after its main Kariba hydropower plant in December 2022 cut electricity generation due to low water levels.<\/p>\n

The problem has been compounded by frequent breakdowns at Hwange Thermal Power Station, the shortage of coal to fire Harare, Bulawayo and Munyati power stations, and failure to pay for power imports from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The City of Bulawayo said that it has requested ZESA to give them advance notices of at least an hour before power cuts to allow the local authority to shut down the pumps properly. 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