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ZIMBABWE: Italy sets conditions for major dam project
HARARE, 25 October (IRIN) - Italy said on Monday it would only go ahead with
a US $40 million dam project for Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo if the
Zimbabwean government provides a time-table and obtains donor funding for a
pipeline to deliver the water.
"We do not want this project, which was agreed in July, to become a white
elephant," Luca Fratini, the Italian embassy's first secretary told IRIN.
The proposed Gwayi-Shangani dam is expected to help bring relief to one of
the most arid areas of Zimbabwe.
It would provide a new water supply for Bulawayo and enable much of the
city's current supply to be allocated to the drought-stricken areas of
Matabeleland South.
"Over the past two to three years, Italian aid to Zimbabwe has amounted to
roughly US $70 million," he said. "This dam is a very important project, one
of the kind of projects that has to be supported and encouraged by donors,
and we are still quite optimistic that they will come up with the donor
funding for its pipeline."
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