After residents of the Sinthumule and Kutama area have been complaining about the shortage of water in their respective areas, the Vhembe District Municipality has stepped in to address the matter.

According to the spokesperson of the Vhembe District Municipality, Mr Ndivhuwo Mamathuba, the municipality has now sunk a borehole at the Nooitgedacht Farm, which is situated along the Madombidzha Road. "Residents in the Sinthumule and Kutama area will be receiving water from the borehole. This short-term project is under way, as we have already started connecting pipes from that particular farm to the Sinthumule area," Mamathuba indicated.

Mamathuba further indicated that the project will be finished soon and, as a result, residents in the Sinthumule and Kutama areas will soon receive water regularly. "The Vhembe District Municipality has a long-term water project, which will be finished somewhere between 2008 and 2009. We have started erecting reservoir dams in Vuwani and Valdezia. That is part of the long-term project, where people will receive water from the Nandoni Dam. The pipes of the current project will later join the pipes from Nandoni," concluded Mamathuba.

Mirror visited the site in Madombidzha where Mamathuba indicated that they had started connecting water pipes from Nooitgedacht farm to the Sinthumule and Kutama area. At the construction site, Mirror learnt that the project has provided job opportunities to residents of the Sinthumule and Kutama areas. One of the residents of Madombidzha village, Mr Eugene Khorombi, told Mirror that the project has helped him a lot as he can now put food on the table. "I am very happy that I am working. I am benefiting from the project and at the same time I am happy that my family will soon receive water," he said

Khorombi added that people in the area were suffering without water. "We hardly cook because of the shortage of water. People who have boreholes in their household are benefiting a lot," Khorombi concluded.