{"id":76107,"date":"2024-08-28T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/lack-of-drinking-water-critical-in-ohangwena-ndeitunga"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T10:24:00","slug":"lack-of-drinking-water-critical-in-ohangwena-ndeitunga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/lack-of-drinking-water-critical-in-ohangwena-ndeitunga","title":{"rendered":"Lack of drinking water critical in Ohangwena \u2013 Ndeitunga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Ohangwena governor Sebastian Ndeitunga has highlighted a lack of drinking water and a poor road network as two critical issues in the region.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said this in his state of the region address at Eenhana on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ndeitunga said the region\u2019s abudant underground water resource, Acquifer 2, has the potential to provide water to the region\u2019s residents and beyond, however, progress in harnessing this water has been painfully slow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith only seven boreholes currently tapping Acquifer 2, expedited to resolve the pressing water scarcity in the region . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe further have 45 boreholes, seven deep and 38 shallow, drilled at Omundaungilo, Epembe, Okongo and Oshikunde \u2013 all at a cost of N$31,6 million,\u201d Ndeitunga said.<\/p>\n<p>He said another borehole has been rehabilitated at Oshikunde at a cost of N$90 000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Ohangwena governor Sebastian Ndeitunga has highlighted a lack of drinking water and a poor road network as two critical issues in the region. He said this in his state of the region address at Eenhana on Wednesday. Ndeitunga said the region\u2019s abudant underground water resource, Acquifer 2, has the potential to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":76106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-76107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lack of drinking water critical in Ohangwena \u2013 Ndeitunga - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/lack-of-drinking-water-critical-in-ohangwena-ndeitunga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lack of drinking water critical in Ohangwena \u2013 Ndeitunga\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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