Around 3.5-million rural people in South Africa are still living without access to clean water, WaterAid Southern Africa regional director Robert Kampala said this week following the release of WaterAid’s yearly analysis of global water access. The report, titled ‘Wild Water: The State of the World’s Water’, which was released on World Water Day, revealed that, globally, 663-million people do not have access to clean water, of which 522-million are rural dwellers.
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Water availability in rural regions still lags
