On Sept. 12, 2013, an estimated 40 percent of the 3 million people living in Senegal’s capital Dakar were cut off from safe water due to damage on a pipe that carried water to the capital from a water plant 250 km (155 miles) away in a town call Keur Momar Sarr. Nobody would have thought that three weeks later, there would still be little sign of water in the city known as the Paris of Africa. Desperate Dakarois, as inhabitants of the capital are called, have resorted to alternative ways to get water for cooking and cleaning, but are now confronted with other dangers as well as the threat of disease. As usual, women, children and the poor have been hit the hardest.
All photos by Misha Hussain
