Namibia: Consumer Court - Access to Adequate Clean Water Is a Right

19 November 2014
opinion

THE past two weeks I have been facing a personal crisis at home. The water connection was cut off on 6 November and still has not been reconnected. At first, I felt like a politician slumming it out and showing I can manage for a day without clean, running water but was very soon brought back to reality. Without water you cannot flush your toilet, drink from a tap, shower or wash your hands.

Everything is returned to basic water access through a bucket or a drum. This made me think of the quote by Marcus Samuelsson, "Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area."

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