Water problem is no small matter but state officials lack solutions
People queue to fetch water. Hydraulic studies that have been shared even among laymen like myself have suggested that not far from where I’m writing this sits an underground body of water. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Some 25 years ago, when Benjamin Mkapa had just taken over as Tanzania’s president, Dar es Salaam was gripped by a bad shortage of water that had not been experienced in years, and everyone seemed to be in a funk.
The then prime minister, Fred Sumaye, put together a task force comprising a few nationals and some representatives of ‘development partners', as they are called these days.
