Gassa,

Below is something disturbing and agin poor farmers,do you know if efforts are
under way to solve this problem too ?

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Saiks










Water crisis hit Kwinella

                 Life in Kiang Kwinella village has assumed a difficult turn
                 with water shortage getting more acute as people desperately
                 search for safe drinking water. The water crisis resulted
from
                 the total break down of four public hand-pumps out of six
                 being used by the village. The inconvenience began in the
                 Tobaski season when the already densely populated village
                 played host to returning sons and daughters to enjoy the
                 festivities but found out that two hand pumps could not
satisfy
                 the demands of the overflowing population.

                 Our reporter who was in he village reported that women in
                 particular bear the burden of searching for water, sometimes
                 drawing from wells on a daily basis. Long queues by them
                 were a daily sight as they search for water for domestic use.
                 Even domestic animals had to wander off to search for water.

                 The problem is so acute that people normally stay at wells
till
                 late at night, and wake up early in the morning before the
                 wells run dry. When contacted, the Alkalos described the
                 shortage as a crisis and called on individuals, NGOs and the
                 government to come to their aid. He said his people are
                 contributing towards the maintenance of the damaged pumps.
                 People who spoke to this paper blamed the crisis on the over
                 eight-month old pipe-borne tap water project which remains
                 incomplete as digging work for the installation of water
pipes
                 continues. “People’s confidence in the project is waning even
                 before it is completed,” an old villager noted.

                 Others believe that the project was a political ploy to lure
                 votes for the APRC in the last presidential and parliamentary
                 elections.

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