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Senegal: Water-stressed capital faces difficult future

Water-stressed capital faces difficult future

SHAFAQNA- Many residents of Dakar get up in the middle of the night hoping to collect water from their taps, which mostly run dry. “We wake up at 4 or 5 am to get water, says Sidy Fall, 44, in her kitchen in a working-class neighbourhood, filled with large bottles of stored water.

If she doesn’t get up in time, the water often runs out by 5:30 am. Fall’s taps are sometimes dry for two or three days at a time. A population boom in Senegal is intensifying pressure on scarce water resources in its semi-arid capital of five million people, with problems set to increase over the coming decades.

Source: france24

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