Chegutu Municipality has been afflicted by water-bone diseases such as Cholera and Typhoid, mainly due to aged water infrastructure. Most of the water pipes were installed more than 50 years ago and were now characterized by frequent pipe bursts, thereby creating conditions for cross contamination of Municipal water with effluent.At the same time, Council's water account has not been performing due to dysfunctional water meters. As such, billing for water consumption has not been yielding any significant revenue to Council for plough-back into water rehabilitation projects. These circumstances prompted Council to appeal for financial assistance from Government to address water availability challenges. Government accordingly heeded Council's plea and availed a loan of $1 million through the 2018 national budget. The loan was made available through the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) and was specifically allocated for purchase and installation of water meters and rehabilitation of the water supply network.

While the project to install water meters is in progress, Council has already engaged a contractor to upgrade the main water pipeline from the water treatment plant to the water reservoirs from 250 mm to 450 mm. This will increase the amount of treated water getting into the reservoirs, which will, in turn, increase the amount and pressure of water reaching residents. The other contractor will also upgrade the pumps at the water treatment plant to improve treatment and pumping capacity. Another contractor will repair and upgrade the water reservoirs, i.e. the Chakari Tower Tank and the ZRP reservoir. Repairs and upgrading of the water reservoirs is set to improve the quantity of water being pumped to the residents. Currently at Chakari Tower Tank, the inlet pipe is also the outlet pipe, meaning that treated water coming from the water treatment plant has to fill up the tank first, then after that, the same pipe is used to convey water from the tank to the users in the high density suburbs and Jason Moyo Airbase. This affects the quantity of water being transmitted to residents. This challenge will be addressed through separation of the inlet and outlet pipe so that at any time, there will be water coming into the tank and also being conveyed to consumers. The ZRP reservoir which has not been fully operational will also be attended to so that residents in the low density suburbs can access adequate Municipal water. These projects are set to improve access to water by residents and also reduce incidents of water-borne diseases.