The community of Siseme in the Zambezi Region received more than 10,000 liters of clean drinking water from the Adventist Development Relief Agency of Namibia.

Residents have been using traditional boreholes for their survival and their livestock.

Some of the boreholes in the area are reported to be drying up while others have brownish water, which the community of 18 villages feels is not fit for human consumption.

ADRA Chairperson in Zambezi, Reagan Musunga, stressed that water is life, hence the need to intensify service delivery to the community.

"As we address this fundamental need of accessing clean water, we know and take it seriously that water is not just a resource; it is life itself. It sustains our body, nourishes our land, and it also establishes an essential for the well-being of every individual and the community."

While appreciating the gesture, Siyanga Milunga, the chairperson of the Siseme village development committee, urged ADRA to continue the assistance to the Siseme community while they continue to await a permanent solution to the area's water crisis.

"In these boreholes, that is where our cattle and goats are getting water, and as we closely look at this year, there is severe drought, and as a result, most of our boreholes are drying up. And as that happens, our cattle skip a day without drinking water. We therefore appeal to the government to look at our situation and hasten the Bukalo Ngoma pipeline, as we know this area has more than 40 villages depending on a few boreholes."

Milunga said it would be of enormous assistance to add three or four more boreholes as the community awaits the extension of the Katima Ngoma pipeline.

Siseme is still not connected to the Katima-Bukalo-Ngoma pipeline and has called on the government to fast-track the Bukalo-Ngoma pipeline that stopped seven kilometres from them at Bukalo.