Suspected organized saboteurs have attacked the national water infrastructure, cutting off a number of major villages from the water network.
The magnitude, frequency and sophistication of destruction of the water infrastructure network across the country has now forced Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) to upgrade constant vandalism to “sabotage.”
This implies that such destruction has become a national security concern.
The corporation is worried that at this level, such destruction is now reversing the gains that Botswana had started to make towards bringing clean water to every household in the country.
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