Changelog

The Ward 25 address on Find Your Councillor was missing part of the council's domain, so anything sent to it would have bounced. Corrected.

Dam Levels and Is the Water On? were carrying storage figures from the end of March. Council's 23 July report has combined storage at 65 to 66 percent, Insiza at 85 and Mtshabezi at 99. The 72-hour shedding programme stays, and the reason is now on the page: only one of the two raw-water pumping lines was running, moving 51 megalitres a day where the pair can move 105. The water lost to leaks before billing is 42 percent, not the 45 we had.

Both Dam Levels and Where Things Stand described the pipeline project as 72 to 75 percent complete. That number is the dam wall, now about 80 percent. The 252 km pipeline that would actually bring the water to Bulawayo is about 16 percent built and has been stalled since 2022 — outstanding contracts of roughly US$554 million against a 2026 budget line near US$11 million. Both pages now separate the two.

Put in what you can store, how many people are in the house and how carefully you are using it, and it works out how many days that water lasts and what a day's ration looks like. The per-person figures are the published Sphere and WHO ones, and the arithmetic happens in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere or saved.

Load shedding is decided by how much water is in Lake Kariba, and the Zambezi River Authority publishes that level every week — including what it was on the same day a year ago. The new page reads it directly: today Kariba holds about twice the usable water it did this time last year. It shows where the level sits in the range the turbines can run on, and it says plainly what it is not — a lake level is not a shedding schedule, and only ZETDC can tell you about your own street.

Monday evening's nationwide power cut was a transmission fault, not a return of load-shedding — scheduled cuts have been suspended for about six months. The ZESA item now says so, with dates.

All 29 wards with their suburbs, councillors and email addresses, straight from the council's own directory — plus visiting hours and entry fees for the Natural History Museum, the Railway Museum, Khami and Matobo, checked on the official pages.

The dam page registered on 8 July never had its code behind it and was retired the next morning. Today it returns properly built: all six supply dams from ZINWA's table (verified 8 April 2026), each figure with its date, the Gwayi-Shangani story, and why full dams still don't guarantee water.

The City of Kings joins with three tools built around the question the city asks every day: water. 'Is the Water On?' carries the current 72-hour shedding programme and a neighbour board where residents confirm the water is back in their area; 'Dam Levels' tracks council's published Dam Watch figures — and why full dams don't guarantee water; 'Where Things Stand' keeps plain, dated status on shedding, ZESA load-shedding (paused for ~188 days), Egodini and the Gwayi-Shangani pipeline. Every number carries the date it was published; council's own channels are linked throughout.

Ten research notes covering the water-shedding cycles and borehole queues, ZESA power cuts, the city's industrial past and present, its festivals and football, and where residents get local information. This groundwork shapes which tools we build first.