Red Cross 'rescues' Gweta, Nata floods victims

Floods devastated the three villages that lie on a saltpan early this year, with Gweta being particularly hard hit.   The floodwaters destroyed homes and contaminated rivers and stream from which villagers get their potable water.

The borehole at Gweta, which supplies the village with underground water was polluted when its sewerage pond was flooded. The borehole has been temporarily closed and the  village in the interim supplied with clean water by bowsers from Tutume, the region's administrative centre.