Long queues as Marapong battles water shortage

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

FRANCISTOWN: Long and winding lines of desperate villagers with empty water containers at Marapong in the Central District are now a common sight, as the village battles acute water shortage.

Frustrated villagers recently took their plight to Facebook showing long lines of people near a water storage tank.

Some of the pictures on Facebook showed children and adults using wheelbarrows and donkey carts to ferry water from the water storage tank. Kgosi Bakani Mampori of Marapong told Mmegi in an interview that the village has been experiencing acute water shortages since the Independence Day celebrations on September 30.

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