About 2,000 displaced families living in the Jowle camps on the outskirts of Garowe are facing serious water shortages after the potable water supply in the camps was cut off.
A privately owned company which used to provide water to the camps has cut eight of the 10 potable water sources in the camps due to a disagreement over water bills in the past three months.
Osman Abukar, the chairman of displaced families in the camp, said the IDPs used to pay water bills by themselves through the water company’s agents. He said the company was now claiming not to have received the money for the water bill payments for months.
The water crisis has worsened the IDPs’ tough life in the camps, some 20 km outside Garowe and far away from water wells. Some of the displaced families have now begun to use unclean water for drinking as they have no available alte.
