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Water outages push residents to the edge
It’s a scorching Tuesday in Melville, west of Johannesburg. Plastic buckets line the driveway of Michael Almeida’s home, a makeshift lifeline in the city’s worsening water crisis. Almeida has endured more than 23 days without water, leaving him desperate and exhausted. “This area continuously has water outages,” he said, wiping sweat from his brow. Almeida,…