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Article: WATER-NAMIBIA: POLICY TO CREATE A WATER SCARCITY?
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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By Servaas van den Bosch
KAVANGO, Namibia, Mar. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Several 5-gallon buckets of water are crammed inside the small enclosure around the only tap in Epingiro, a small gathering of kraals in the Kavango woodlands in northern Namibia.
"The people left them here before they went to work in their fields," explains Robert Mukuya, who is a field worker with Biota, a German-Namibian research program focusing on biodiversity and use of natural resources.
Normally the tap is locked, to prevent people in neighboring settlements from stealing water while the villagers are away. But today the "pompa boy" in charge forgot to lock the tap ...