Ndola residents struggle with contaminated tap water

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Ndola residents struggle with contaminated tap water

Despite having water readily supplied to her home by Kafubu Water and Sewerage Company, Bridget, knows the only way she can ensure that her family has clean drinking water that she is convinced will be safe to consume, is towalk down some six kilometres to fetch drinking water at a nearest bore hole in the industrial area.

"Look at this," she said, as the greenish -coloured water, with a sulphurous smell, ran into the sink after she opened her kitchen tap.

"The water which comes out of our taps is dirty. Yet we are forced to drink it - knowing it is clearly unsafe for us and our families," she said angrily.

Bridget and her family stopped drinking water from the taps two years ago after her children began suffering from stomache and vomiting due to the state of the water.

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