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Mozambique: Two-thirds of population without proper drinking water – minister
10:02 CAT | 23 Mar 2022
Photo: Ministério das Obras Públicas, Habitação e Recursos Hídricos-MOPHRH
Around 66% of the Mozambican population does not have access to drinking water in the country, despite around 1,000 boreholes being drilled every year, the minister of public works said on Tuesday.
“In Mozambique statistics show that we have about 66% of the population without any safe source of water,” Carlos Mesquita, Mozambique’s minister of public works, housing and water resources said.
He was speaking in Maputo during a ceremony to celebrate World Water Day, which was marked yesterday.
According to Mesquita, the availability of water in the 1,000 boreholes opened each year in the country is “limited” due, amongst other reasons, to low flows, pollution caused by excessive use of agricultural fertilisers, disorderly settlements and prolonged droughts.
He added that with the effect of climate change, there is “a reduction in the availability of water” in the country, and he suggested the “construction of underground water capture infrastructures”.
In order to deal with the problem, recourse to “desalination, in regions where underground water is brackish,” could be another alternative, Mesquita said.
Source: Lusa
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