Faeza Meyer, African Water Commons Collective founder, collecting fresh water for her family from a pipe left out at a neighbour’s plot in Silvertown near Malmesbury. (Photo: David Harrison)
The City of Cape Town has installed meters that limit the amount of water people use but it is hurting the poor, who use far less water than the wealthy
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