Posted on 08/22/2019 12:46:00 AM PDT by Windflier
...life without water is a daily nightmare endured in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare, where more than two million people only have running water once a week, according to the New York Times.
The water shortage there means residents ration bathroom trips and stand in interminable lines to fill buckets and cans at communal boreholes. One mother profiled by the New York Times got in line at 3 a.m. By the afternoon, she was still standing in line.
The boreholes are a problem too since they are so polluted. "Water-borne diseases linked to these boreholes are on the rise, but people have had to take in their own hands water supply because the utility has failed to provide water," said Jean-Marie Kileshye-Onema, network manager of WaterNet, as Climate Change News reported.
The water rationing started in June in the country's two major cities, Harare and Bulawayo. The economics of water purification are also working against Zimbabwe. The city government has had to work a critical shortage of purifying chemicals, which cost in excess of $3 million per month, according to CNN.
"We are using more chemicals and we have not been able to procure enough safe chemicals as a result, we are targeting to provide water to our residents with a minimum of once a week' supply of the precious liquid," said Mabhena Moyo, Harare's Acting Water director, as CNN reported.
The shortage, which started in January but has been exacerbated in July, is due to an awful drought year from the climate crisis. Poor water management has also squandered the remaining water. An estimate of 45 to 60 percent of the water that's left in Harare reservoirs is lost through leakage and theft, said Herbert Gomba, the mayor of Harare, as the New York Times reported.
"There is a rotational water supply within the five towns," said Michael Chideme, Harare city council corporate communications manager, to Climate Change News. "Some people are getting water five days a week especially in the western suburbs, but the northern suburbs are going for weeks without a drop in their taps."
The water crisis has raised fears of a cholera outbreak or other waterborne diseases, especially in areas where residents have lived without water for three months, said Community Water Alliance, an NGO, as CNN reported.
Funny you posted this. Called the local water company yesterday saying “I think you got a busted line down here” I said, “I’ve lived here 15 plus years and my ditch is always dry in August” He kept looking at me as an idiot, even after I showed him look at the water running here (further down), you can see. I guess after they went back and checked their numbers they came back today and solved the problem. As I checked the mail on that property today, it looked like someone did some work there in my ditch. I’ll have to walk around the property tomorrow and see if water still runs??
This is what happens to countries that dismiss capitalism and white people.
Socialism. I just wanted to mention that since the article did not. Just another example of why you don’t want it here
when you look back, you’ve got to think were the Africans even a step above Neanderthals? Makes ya wonder sometimes
The are tons of water on palates sitting unused in Puerto Rico, that could be of use if TRUMP would just DO SOMETHING! /s
pallets
It is good to have a well.
This is how wars start, there are always people using the river and other people pissing upstream ruining the waters...
Is Mugabe still in power?
My brother was in the peace corps, I was surprised to find that anyone in the peace corps is banned from my rate or tribe in the military.
You think they are helping, but helping who?
Oh america! I had the same problem with a wet ditch in front of my house. they said it was because we had a wet spring. I have a water treatmwnt license and a water sampler license in my state. Guy came out while I was at work and they calle dme to say it was ground water waited another week and it was still bubbling up and running down the ditch. I finally tested it myself for chlorine and it had chlorine in it.
The water company giy came out and I tested another sample right in front of him. they finally dug up the ditch and said “the was a leak, about 20 drops a minute, its fixed. . they leid to cover the busted pipe do to some work they had done just before this happened and they lied about testing it. So yes, county maintenance isnt any better in southern maryland.
Lack of chemicals to treat the water, and 60% is lost to leakage and theft. But - it’s “climate change”.
Post-colonial Africa is reverting to what it was before the White Devil showed up; there are reasons why there were no African cities with millions of people before the whites arrived. Like the American Indians, it was impossible to collect enough food and water to sustain large concentrations of people. Western involvement caused these populations to explode, Western aid keeps them alive, and true independence is impossible as a result - they don’t have to “grow up”.
LOL?
Take your hat off cowboy it’s chocking the blood to your brain.
2 million people includes a lot of kids who may get very sick on a large scale soon.
AT BEST, they can’t get enough water.
I know we’re conservatives.
I thought we were Christians too.
These countries can’t get their act together and dictatorships and crime and disease cause catastrophic results.
But I didn’t know it only happened in black countries.
Venezuela. Cuba. Russia. China. NK. There is a lot more suffering going on than we see because these countries control what is let out to the media.
Or how about the GENIUS that is White Man.
Almost ALL of Western Europe AND us are letting people who at BEST want to suck us dry and at WORST want to kill us.
We and W Europe are committing suicide (some men like Trump and Salvini are trying to put an end to it and I think they will succeed.
But Africa CERTAINLY doesn’t corner the market and bad government, bad living conditions and insane policy.
On 15 November 2017, in the wake of over a year of protests against his government as well as Zimbabwe’s rapidly declining economy, Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country’s national army in a coup d’état.[20][21] On 19 November 2017, ZANU-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as party leader and appointed former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his place.[22] On 21 November 2017, Mugabe tendered his resignation prior to impeachment proceedings being completed.[23] On 30 July 2018 Zimbabwe held its general elections,[24] which was won by the ZANU-PF party led by Emmerson Mnangagwa.[25] Nelson Chamisa who was leading the main opposition party MDC Alliance contested the election results and filed a petition to the Constitution Court of Zimbabwe.[26] The court confirmed Mnangagwa’s victory, making him the newly elected president after Mugabe.[27][28]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
Get rid of the evil white man...
Thanks.
Cholera and typhus are both really bad ways to die. Any time you have a limited water supply, basic sanitation, like a functioning sanitation system, go first. One of my ancestors died in the Civil War from typhus, in Spotsylvania County, VA, in conditions that were measurably better than those in Harare.
I have always made it a point to include several barrels of chlorinated water in our emergency preparations, and to fill the bathtubs when hurricanes threaten. We can all easily point to the root causes of this horrific situation in Zimbabwe. The harder part is helping them find a permanent solution that doesn't involve the usual 3rd world "solution" of mass murder.
Boy great post.
And you are right. Awful ways to die.
And I can’t believe you know about someone in your family tree from the civil war!!
I have seen a picture of my Italian great grandfather.
That’s all the history before grandpas that I know.
And yes, it is difficult to help these people as we learned in “Blackhawk Down”.
And maybe there IS nothing we can do to help them.
But we can at least not LOL at the situation.
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