Fierce fight for water
The Citizen|October 18, 2024
CORONATIONVILLE: SITUATION SAID TO HAVE WORSENED SINCE MARCH
Kyle Zeeman
Fierce fight for water
Jacqueline Holmes wakes up at 1am every day to shower, fill water bottles and wash clothes for her sleeping family. If she can, she gets her elderly cancer-stricken mother up and bathed.

It is a race against the clock because when 5am hits, the taps run dry until the next morning. This five-year struggle has worsened since March. Holmes and her neighbours now have not had a full week of water in seven months.

She is one of dozens of frustrated Westbury and Westdene residents who took to the streets this week to barricade roads. The busy Harmony Street in Coronationville, which carries hundreds of commuters a day, resembled the scene of a post-apocalypse film when The Citizen visited on Wednesday.

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