MOZAMBIQUE: The goal is clean water for allMonday, December 01, 2008 MAPUTO Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Each morning Sophia Santos wakes up early, picks up two 20-litre plastic containers and walks to a neighbour's house in Polana Caniço 'A', a sprawling suburb in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for a day's supply of water. "We have no tap water at our house; there are no stand pipes [from where we can] buy," said the mother of two, waiting for her containers - originally tubs of cooking oil - to fill. "We pay [US 2 cents] for 20 litres of water. At... Source: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80282 |
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