Business: Africa Is Running Out of Water as Cities See Populations Boom

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Business: Africa Is Running Out of Water as Cities See Populations Boom By Bloomberg

“The taps flow once a week and usually at night, so we stay awake to fetch what we can store,” Kabuki, 35, said in an interview in Accra. “We mostly augment by buying water from tankers.”

“Stress levels will continue to increase as demand for water grows and the effects of climate change intensify,” the UN said in the report. Crumbling infrastructure has compounded the effect of a crippling drought in cash-strapped Zimbabwe, resulting in water rationing in its two largest cities, Harare and Bulawayo. In Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, supply has been cut off on alternating days since January after dam levels fell to less than a quarter of their capacity.

 

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