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HARARE, Zimbabwe – As children played near cesspools, their parents shook their heads at a public service announcement drifting over the radio Tuesday: It urged people to boil water before drinking it.
It sounded like a taunt in a country where water and electricity are cut off far more than they are on.
Authorities turned off the taps in Zimbabwe's capital again this week because they had run out of purifying chemicals — even as a cholera epidemic threatened the country, claiming hundreds of lives since August.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe – As children played near cesspools, their parents shook their heads at a public service announcement drifting over the radio Tuesday: It urged people to boil water before drinking it.
It sounded like a taunt in a country where water and electricity are cut off far more than they are on.
Authorities turned off the taps in Zimbabwe's capital again this week because they had run out of purifying chemicals — even as a cholera epidemic threatened the country, claiming hundreds of lives since August.
Read more ....