With its broken sewage and failing water treatment plants, South Africa has the perfect conditions for diseases such as cholera to thrive
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A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as
trading sex for water
The municipality turned a deaf ear to residents’ cries — until they united and took it to court