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Human excrement flows down streets in Tafara / Mabvuku - Suburbs go 7 months without sewerage system - Page 2 of 3
Citizen Report
March 12, 2008

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Human excrement is flowing out of the residents' toilets and into their back yards where they grow their vegetables. They can't use their toilets any more because they can't even open the door to get in and they can't clean anything because they don't have enough water. 42 people have died from diseases such as dysentry.

I spoke to a young woman who is confined to a wheel chair. She told me that she is a prisoner in her house. She can't get the wheel chair outside because of the mess so when she needs the toilet, she wheels herself to the back door and goes to the toilet just outside the doorway.

Human excrement is flowing out of the residents' toilets and into their back yards Vegetables grow in beds surrounded by human excrement

In the picture on the right, what looks like paving stones is actually dried human excrement, 6 inches deep. Mealies are growing in it.

Human excrement is flowing out of the residents' toilets and into their back yards Human excrement is flowing out of the residents' toilets and into their back yards

Stagnant pools of sewage form outside homes Stagnant pools of sewage form outside homes

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