Taps run dry in Keetmans informal settlements due to vandalism

Residents from informal settlements at Keetmanshoop in the ||Kharas region are facing ongoing water supply challenges due to vandalism of communal water infrastructure.

Kanona Shimuafeleni, an affected resident, describes using public toilets and communal taps in the informal settlement as equivalent to not having access to water and sanitation services.

“We want to know what will the municipality do about us as residents of this town who are left without water for long periods of time. Sometimes you walk for almost a kilometre to get to a tap with your buckets only to find that there is no water,” she says.