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In South Africa's Eastern Cape Region, Nokhawulezile Ketse heads for home after a daily one-mile trek for water for her eight children. Fewer than half of the residents of Ketse's Eastern Cape Region have access to piped water. The unclean water she collects was one of the causes of a massive cholera outbreak in South Africa three years ago that affected 120,000 people and killed 260. Water is a constitutional right in South Africa, but, so far, the government's initiatives to assure water for every citizen by 2010 has made little progress. Privatization of water systems has been introduced to build capacity, but the result is that even when poor South African communities have access to clean water, they often may not be able to pay for it.
Photo: AP
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