Girl's drowning sparks water riot in thirsty South African township

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Eight-year-old Musa and her older sister Moleboheng trudged down the ravine with...

QWAQWA, South Africa - Eight-year-old Musa and her older sister Moleboheng trudged down the ravine with buckets and drum bottles to fetch water from a filthy stream because they were thirsty and tired of waiting for trucks meant to deliver emergency water that never showed up.

“We rushed down there. She was still under the water... Two boys from the neighborhood went in and one carried her out,” Mbele said. “The house is empty without her. She was such a sweet, quiet child”. Protesters torched shops, overturned government vehicles and hurled bricks and bottles at riot police who responded with rubber bullets.

“It rains here all the time but they say there’s drought. Then how did that little girl drown because that stream was full?” said Malgas “Skinny” John, 39, who used rocks and burning tyres during the January riot to barricade the road leading into Qwaqwa in a face-off with police.

 

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Too late. MUCH too late. Human caused climate change is a gigantic fraud, and too many thinking people know it.

Maybe they’re going the way of Zimbabwe now that they are running alll the white people away

overpopulation

Instead of water shortage it could be called population excess. Too many people in the wrong place will create resource scarcity. And, as the movie Dark Waters showed, even where water is plentiful it can be a silent poison.

But SA is all better now...you know, since apartheid ended.

You have got to be kidding me Reuters!? Have you lost your mind?! This has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with a corrupt thieving government!

No, it is clear evidence of a failure of the ANC South African government. Children drowning in latrine pit toilets is not evidence of climate change nor is electricity blackouts due to late running power station building programs.

And don’t forget the corruption

It's because of the bad water management. If drinking water is scarce you need sophisticated water management.

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