Burkina Faso capital hit by water cuts amid soaring heat
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OUAGADOUGOU- Water trickles out of the faucet sometimes around 2 a.m. -- and by dawn the taps run empty at Dramane Drabo's laundry business. It could be days before any more water returns, he laments.
Across Burkina Faso's capital, even the wealthiest neighborhoods, typically spared from such shortages, are suffering without water amid an unprecedented heat wave. Already the short supply has increased the price of a barrel of water more than 10 fold from just a few months ago.
Women and children are lining up for hours to get water from the capital's few public wells and government trucks carrying water tanks. And business owners like Drabo who are reliant on water ask how they can continue.
