By Cam McGrath
"CAIRO, Sep 6, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.
"We'll boil it when we get home," says one woman, positioning a blue jerrycan on her head.
Water shortages, aggravated by intense summer heat and recurring power outages, have forced millions of Egyptians to scavenge for water in recent months. Experts say Egypt's limited water resources have been stretched, making the supply of water vulnerable to failing infrastructure and misguided domestic water policies....
Marginalised citizens complain of growing disparities between the haves and have-nots. Golf courses and well-watered gated communities carved out of desert land lie just beyond low-income districts where women and children queue at public water distribution points...."
"CAIRO, Sep 6, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) - The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.
"We'll boil it when we get home," says one woman, positioning a blue jerrycan on her head.
Water shortages, aggravated by intense summer heat and recurring power outages, have forced millions of Egyptians to scavenge for water in recent months. Experts say Egypt's limited water resources have been stretched, making the supply of water vulnerable to failing infrastructure and misguided domestic water policies....
Marginalised citizens complain of growing disparities between the haves and have-nots. Golf courses and well-watered gated communities carved out of desert land lie just beyond low-income districts where women and children queue at public water distribution points...."
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