BUTTERWORTH, the former industrial capital of the Transkei, crippled by service payment protests and a municipal workers strike last year, has run out of water. Businesses, schools, homes and the hospital have been without water for a week, after the town’s three municipal water pumps were reported “broken”. Businesses are ferrying supplies from East London, 80km away. A health hazard is feared as toilets cannot be flushed, while nurses at Butterworth Hospital say emergency tank water is about to run dry.