BULAWAYO residents could have been exposed to sewage and mud-contaminated water through seepage into burst water pipes, a latest council environmental, management and engineering services committee report reveals.
This came as the local authority has invited the anger of residents and other stakeholders over a diarrhoea, dysentery and typhoid outbreak linked to rolling water shortages facing the city.
An environmental, management and engineering services committee report showed that quality tests done by the council at its Criterion, Ncema and Cowdray waterworks met prescribed limits for human consumption.
The report, however, revealed that mud and sewage could have contaminated the potable water through leakages linked to water pipe bursts.
