Queuing At Dawn As Comoros Taps Run Dry
Residents queue nightly for water as leaks, air pockets and weak الكهرباء leave Moroni’s network delivering only brief trickles.
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Queuing At Dawn As Comoros Taps Run Dry
Like many residents of the capital of the Comoros, 86-year-old Ben Joma does not bother to turn off the taps at his home.They only provide water roughly every three weeks and, even then, it is just a thin trickle that lasts about an hour, he told AFP.Whenever anyone in Zilimadjou, his neighbourhood of Moroni, gets a decent flow from a tap, “We call each other to let everyone know so we can fill all our containers,” the retired printer said.The l…
"When the water is there, we call ourselves (between neighbours) to warn ourselves in order to fill all our containers", tells this printer to retray it with a malicious look, met by the AFP in its district of Zilimadjou of the Comorian capital. Water pipes runaway, pockets of air in an undersized network, lack of electricity to power the main pumping station, there are many reasons to explain the water crisis that the 150,000 inhabitants of the…
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