Water woes in a growing city

Water woes in a growing city

At 4 am, Chrissy Mpata of Sawayeka on the nothrern margins of Mzuzu City leaves her husband fast asleep and disappears into the dark, carrying her bucket. Her third-born daughter follows half-asleep, down a hill dotted with emerging houses. At Kamunkhota, about a kilometre away, a borehole near Nkhorongo Community Day Secondary School serves four peri-urban settlements. On arrival, Mpata, 49, joins the queue, placing her bucket in a crooked line…