Residents of Ombwata, Onandjila, Okalale, Olyasiiti, Iikokola and Okamalindi villages in the Omusati Region held a demonstration demanding a reliable water supply after going without water for up to seven months every year.
Windhoek residents will have to come up with funds, and urgently so, or face water and electricity disconnection.
Some elderly residents NBC News spoke to expressed concern.
Sixty-eight-year-old Anna Doeses relies almost entirely on her pension grant.
Efforts to improve basic services and development in Opuwo are gaining momentum, with the Town Council addressing hard water, roads and access to land.
Residents of Noordoewer Settlement in the ||Kharas Region are fed up with the unreliable water supply that has been going on for two years now, despite its location along the Orange River.
A family at Keetmanshoop's Paradise Informal Settlement has blamed the municipality for their house burning down to ashes. They claim that the damage could have been contained had there been water available.
Namport Social Investment Fund has injected over N$2 million for the installation and rehabilitation of five boreholes in the Oshikoto Region.
The region's Governor Sacky Kathindi said water and sanitation remain among the region's critical challenges.
A farmer at Camp 3 in Otjiwarongo has raised concerns over inadequate water supply and the lack of fencing hindering farming activities, as the number of people and livestock in the area continues to grow.
Camp 3 is a municipal plot with about 20 households, initially intended for crop farming.
Residents of Onamishu in the Eengodi Constituency of the Oshikoto Region have raised concerns over taps running dry.
During the autumn and winter seasons, water supply becomes limited compared to the rainy season.
The ageing Kuiseb Collector 2-Schwarzekuppe-Swakopmund water pipeline is undergoing final upgrades costing close to N$84 million.
The water pipeline has served the coastal area for more than five decades.
NamWater has been upgrading and modernising the 73-kilometer pipeline in phases.
A borehole drilled at Mpuku village in 1972 has never supplied a single drop of water.
Fifty-three years later, residents are calling on the Kavango West Regional Council to rehabilitate it.
Residents of Mpuku village continue to walk long distances in search of water.
