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“The southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has not been spared the heavy rains that have fallen across Southern Africa; the water is welcome in this semi-arid part of the country, but the coming of the rainy season has provoked fresh memories of the 2008 cholera epidemic.
“Sikhulekile Banda, who lives in Tshabalala, a crowded low-income township, uses makeshift sand filters for both the rainwater she harvests and the brown water she gets sporadically from her kitchen tap.
“”This is what we used when we were growing up in the rural areas, way before independence [in 1980],” she says as she filled a bucket with a perforated bottom with sand.
“She then pours water into the bucket, where it will slowly drip through the night into another container set below. The previously muddy water emerges sparkling clean, but Banda is not sure whether this is enough to protect her family’s health.”
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