The village’s women, some elderly, collect the water daily, navigating a narrow path down a steep hill carrying old paint and oil buckets and a pair of gumboots they share.
Elderly women in Chwebeni Village have to brave a narrow path daily to collect water from a source shared with cattle, 15 March 2024.
“We are very worried about the water,” said Nosalathiso Phetshana, the vice-chairperson of the Chwebeni Community Development Forum. “There is no other water we can use.” When asked why the taps in Chwebeni had run dry, the OR Tambo District Municipality claimed that illegal connections had “destroyed the water distribution system”.“The treatment plant can no longer meet the demand due to rapid expansion that took place in the urban area,” she said.
The school has close to 800 learners, who use four pit toilets, as a newly built ablution facility cannot be opened because of the water problems.
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