Seventy-five-year-old Verdiana Protas is worried that the 20 cattle she bought with her pension money will soon die because the 10-kilometre-long river in her village in northwest Tanzania has been dry for two years now and finding alternative sources of water is getting more and more difficult.
Tanzania ministry of water official, Sylvester Matemu.
Like the other 200 families in Kagondo neighborhood in Bukoba urban district where Protas has lived for 40 years, her animals used drink from the river, which was also a source of water for domestic use.
Now Protas and the other residents don’t have a reliable source of water and they are forced to walk long distances to find water for drinking and their livestock, she says. ‘Some people walk for 10 kilometres but only end up getting unclean water,’ says Protas. Read more
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