Water infrastructure was installed in uMsinga in KwaZulu-Natal years ago but has never worked.
Jabu Mthembu and Duduzile Sokhela get up every morning at 3am to walk to the communal borehole in Nyandu to fetch water. The borehole is only a kilometre or two away, but the queues are long. And sometimes the water runs out.
“Water from the river is dirty because we share it with animals,” says Sokhela. “But not all of us can afford to buy water.” “Each family member drinks one cup of water per day and our children wear their uniform for the whole week to save the little water we have.” Families there saved money, and bought their own pipes which they connected to the water supply. But the water only lasted a few days, says Majozi. Municipal workers from the water department in Solomon Linda came several times but never fixed the system, he says.
Majozi showed GroundUp the Mbindolo borehole, where there was a long queue of people, including old people and children, standing with their containers, waiting their turn to fetch water.
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