Water turmoil in Douala casts shadow over precious resource – Cameroon Intelligence Report

Cameroon Intelligence Report

Water turmoil in Douala casts shadow over precious resource – Cameroon Intelligence Report

Dawn breaks in Cameroon’s economic hub, the seething metropolis of Douala, and a crowd gathers at the water spigots by the Guinness brewery in the run-down district of Bassa. They fill up jerrycans and canisters from the only dependable local source of water — a borehole installed by the brewery itself in the absence of a reliable state supplier. People load up car trunks, motorcycle taxi luggage racks or else balance containers on their heads. …