{"id":40002,"date":"2026-07-19T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40002"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:30:08","slug":"seven-in-10-zimbabweans-pan-government-performance-on-water-sanitation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/seven-in-10-zimbabweans-pan-government-performance-on-water-sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven in 10 Zimbabweans pan government performance on water, sanitation \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey has revealed that 70% of Zimbabweans rate their government&#8217;s performance in providing water and sanitation services as poor, highlighting a deepening utility crisis across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest Afrobarometer report shows that water supply has climbed to the fifth-most urgent problem citizens want the government to address. According to the data, 60% of households experienced clean water shortages at least once over the past year. Crucially, nearly half of the population, 49%, reported facing these shortages repeatedly, marking a 10-percentage point surge in chronic water insecurity over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructural deficit remains a massive hurdle, with only 37% of surveyed areas possessing piped water systems accessible to most households. Instead, 54% of citizens now rely on tubewells or boreholes as their primary water source, and a majority must travel outside their compounds to collect water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sanitation is equally strained. Only 31% of the areas monitored feature proper sewage systems, leaving a mere 25% of citizens with indoor toilets. Climate change has worsened the strain, prompting 45% of Zimbabweans to actively ration their water usage or seek alternative sources over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/Afrobarometer&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14342,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-40002","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Afrobarometer reveals steep public dissatisfaction over Zimbabwe's water crisis","published_date":"2026-07-19 15:28:26","news_description":"Afrobarometer reveals steep public dissatisfaction over Zimbabwe's water crisis","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40003,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40002\/revisions\/40003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}