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Posts tagged as “rural development”

Limpopo SOPA promises solutions again – as dry taps continue to haunt communities

For many households in Limpopo, access to water is not a convenience but a daily battle. Families spend hours queuing at communal taps or walking long distances to collect water from boreholes and wells, where animals also drink

Dry taps, quiet crisis – how state inaction normalised rural water poverty

Billions have been spent on water projects, but due to corruption and mismanagement, many of these were never completed. Broken water pipes at what used to be construction sites for these projects stand as poignant monuments to this rot.