"Nyandong Chang lives five minutes from the water kiosk and is here up to six times a day. It's still hard work, she says, but at least nowadays water is available and clean. Until last year, women and children in Bor, the capital of South Sudan's Jonglei state, faced a much tougher chore going all the way to the filthy stretch of the White Nile that runs near the town to draw the family's drinking, washing and cooking water and carry it back. It was dirty and could make people sick at home, but we had no other option, says Chang."
"But that was before Bor's new water treatment plant transformed the town in what is being seen as a beacon of climate crisis adaptation. Bor was entirely submerged when the White Nile broke its banks in late 2020. Although used to its seasonal overflow bor means flood in the Dinka language it was flooding people here had not seen for 60 years."
Nyandong Chang lives five minutes from the water kiosk and visits up to six times daily to collect clean water in yellow jerrycans. Until last year, women and children in Bor drew water from a filthy stretch of the White Nile, exposing households to sickness. A new $5.4m water treatment plant, funded by the Netherlands and South Korea, connected the town to a pipe network and was handed over to the state-owned SSUWC. Bor was entirely submerged when the White Nile broke its banks in late 2020, and parts of Jonglei remain flooded. Extreme flooding has displaced close to 380,000 people this year.
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