Zimbabwe: Water Crisis Now Threat to National Security

The government may try to downplay the magnitude of the obtaining economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe, and put genuine efforts to address the challenges facing the country, but they need to prepare for a public health disaster that is increasingly becoming imminent.

Attention may today be focused on other critical and noise-provoking issues of electricity, high commodity prices and general shortages of basic commodities but, unless government puts more focus on health matters, in particular the provision of medical drugs and clean water, the country may be thrown into a deep crisis whose consequences may be dire.

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