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CITY authorities in Zimbabwe’s second largest city said Saturday they were appealing to homeowners to flush their toilets at a specified time as a way to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing.
Bulawayo city council has asked its more than one million residents to flush their toilets simultaneously at 7:30 p.m. when water supplies are restored. City officials say "synchronized flushing" is needed to clear waste that would have accumulated in sanitary facilities that will have been affected by days of water outages.
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