majority of local authorities in the country also proposed water rationing. According to the UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme, the water and sanitation situation in Zimbabwe faces many challenges around capacity, behaviours and the lack of investment in these sectors during and after the economic crisis of the last decade. According to the Harare Residents’ Trust, residents experienced water disconnections, shortages, and sewerage bursts increases, providing breeding ground for typhoid, cholera and dysentery. The Community Water Alliance warned that unless the water crisis in the country was attended to, a disaster loomed. Access to Electricity Electricity supply across the country was somewhat steady, albeit Zimbabwe remained in energy deficit. Zimbabwe required 2,400 MW in energy production to meet national demand, but only produced an average of 1,200MW. In 2017, the country completed the extension project of Kariba South Power Station which added 300MW to the national grid, adding the total installed capacity at Kariba to 1050MW. Although the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) surpassed its energy delivery target for the third quarter of 2018, Zimbabwe had a daily power deficit of between 300MW and 600MW and spent between $7 million and $10 million a week on power imports from Eskom of South Africa and Hydro Cahora Bassa of Mozambique. The efficacy of this hydro project however is dependent on water levels. Health The right to health was severely compromised by crippling industrial action by health professionals. Added to that was shortage of critical drugs and equipment at public health institutions. Most people depend on the public health system. The challenges in the health sector have over the years been exacerbated by inadequate funding to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. A cholera outbreak in September killed about 50 people. Self-styled prophet, Walter Magaya, was convicted on behalf of his company Aretha Medical, for contravening the Medicines Control Act by selling an unapproved drug which he claimed cured HIV and AIDS. He was fined $700. The Ministry of Health had prior to that engaged him to withdraw his claims, which put people at risk of absconding on approved medication. The country has more than 1.4 million people living with HIV and AIDS, and 1.2 million are anti-retroviral treatment. Children caring a bucket of water walking in a sewerage burst The national waste management problem was most clear in Harare. The Harare City Council failed to cope with a rise in the number of people moving from rural areas into the city. In the past 30 years, population in the capital has doubled to more than 2,1 million people. Refuse collection was not regular in suburbs, and was halted completed in some areas. The national waste management problem was most clear in Harare Children play on uncollected garbage in Harare 22 STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ZIMBABWE 2018