Cape TownBengaluru’s tap water reaches 80% of one ward, a few times a week.
Researchers presenting at Food Indaba 2026 found intermittent supply is filled by unpaid household labor, overwhelmingly women’s, plus boreholes and tankers no utility counts as cost.
Pressure and distance from the trunk main, not policy, decide which neighborhoods get water first, they said.
Sources: Daily Maverick