Amathole District Municipality has created a new project in Xhora named iXhora bulk water supply, The project will be helping 60,000 homes to receive water.
This project cost R700 million and it will help villages over 300 to receive water.
One of the community members said that “they had taps in their ward but the taps were always empty”.
The municipality is grateful that the people of iXhora will now have some improvement.
Not receiving pure water makes it very hard to maintain a living to people. – says Mayor Samkelo Janda
Most of Eastern Cape towns still struggle for water, some fetch water very far from their homes and some drink the same water with the cows.