Harare's water crisis unresolved

Concerns are mounting for millions of residents in Zimbabwe's capital Harare at risk of water-borne disease because of a water and sanitation crisis.

Zimbabwean women and children fetch water from an unprotected well in Harare AAP.jpg
A new report by Human Rights Watch says five years after cholera killed at least 4,000 people, the conditions that allowed the epidemic to flourish remain in the city's high density suburbs.

Speaking from Harare, researcher with Human Rights Watch Jane Cohen told Hannah Sinclair many residents are forced to wait in line at boreholes for up to five hours a day.

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