Major towns in Cameroon suffer water crises

Some major cities in Cameroon are in dire need of water to quench their taste after being deprived of water for long.

For more than a week, residents in some towns like Buea, Yaoundé, Kumba among others are forced to spend the whole day searching for where to get water.


At times, these taps that frequently flow for just 30 minutes, always see the population fighting as to who is to get a little drop.


In the case of Buea, the University of Buea students around the Molyko vicinity, seem to be leaving in a desert as there have to trek kilometers before they get drinking water.


While in the students’ residential area in the University Of Yaoundé II, Soa, their situation is indifferent.


"When the water comes, it is brown and has a strong smell of detergent. Because we cannot drink it for the fear of catching gastric diseases, "says a student.


In the neighbourhoods of Anguissa, Mvog Ada, Essos, Nkolndongo or Kondengui, the situation is even more bitter. In these popular areas of the capital, residents now live with no water to drink.

Especially since unlike other sectors, these districts had so far been spared from water shortages. “This time it's serious! Before water cuts never exceeded more than two days. Sometimes the water came back very late at night.


This allowed us at least to make reservations. But it's been four days since we do not have water, and nobody tells us why, "laments Françoise.


For some people, the only way to get water is to descend to in a marshy area at the boundary between the towns and Anguissa Kondengui, where the mother of the first lady, Chantal Biya resides. It is here that every morning, people are queuing for hours to collect water source.


Meanwhile, in Bamenda, the government has made available the sum of FCFA 8 billion to put the water crisis in Bamenda town and environs to an end.


The funds will also extend water to the University of Bamenda in Bambili, Tubah and Bambui.