One Tap for 1,000 Families. and It's Been Dry for Seven Years GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
About 1,000 households have no piped water.The only tap ran dry seven years ago in Ngcisininde Komkhulu village in Ngqamakhwe, about 35 kilometres from Butterworth in the Eastern Cape.
"I'm not lying when I say that we last had clean [tap] water in 2016, after we begged the contractor to install a standpipe for us. Unfortunately, the water only came out for few months and the tap went dry," says villager Luyanda Gciyane.There is an old tank from the 1980s that used to supply water but the villagers say it broke in 2005. For years they asked the Amathole District Municipality to please repair the tank, but nothing was done.
"The issue of lack of water in this village is long, and we no longer bother the ward councillors about it," he said.
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