WITHUIS COMMUNITY RECEIVES CLEAN WATER TANK AFTER YEARS OF SHORTAGES - nbc

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[00:00:00]Now, for the past years, access to portable water has been a challenge for the Vet Hayes community who had relied on a water canal supplying water to the green scheme farmers. This week, the Hardap governor, in collaboration with the Mariental Town Council, delivered a water tank to the Vet Hayes community, providing them access to clean drinking water.

[00:00:20]No politics, no here and there stories.

[00:00:24]The story is the only story that is binding all of us is they must get the clean drinking water. And we are going to supply them with that water.

[00:00:33]Our in-house will come together and sort out who is responsible for who for what.

[00:00:38]But the clean drinking water must come here.

[00:00:42]And I think those are the promises that we have made to our people when we asked them to put us into charge of offices.

[00:00:50]So, let us honor our promises.

[00:00:52]The benefiting community expressed gratitude for gaining access to portable water. So, we appreciate very much and I like the point that he made that he doesn't consider it as with our political parties, but what matter most is the leadership.

[00:01:08]So, we appreciate and we know that this leadership can work together and we move forward in it.

[00:01:14]So, it's the promise, so we just believe that you will you will fulfill it and everything will be fine.

[00:01:21]The residents said the unsafe water from the canal often left children suffering from diarrhea. Governor plans to convene a stakeholder meeting on 2nd June for discussions of long-term solutions for securing permanent access to clean water for the Vet Hayes community.

[00:01:38]Lukman Cloete, NBC News, Keetmanshoop.