Zimbabwe Water Minister Steps Up Effort To Restore Safe Supplies

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From VOA News -- Following World Water Day, the Zimbabwean Water and Sanitation Minister said Monday that he is determined to get safe drinking water to everyone in Zimbabwe.

“ The breakdown of municipal water systems under the management of the Zimbabwe National Water Authority was a major contributing factor in the deadly cholera epidemic which has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the country since it too hold in August 2008 ”

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