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Venezuelans struggling with water shortages

Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:06:15 AM
By IAN JAMES

A woman walks down stairs amid water hose to carry water collected from a water truck to lower parts of Filas de Mariches neighborhood  in Caracas, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. While Venezuela's capital began water rationing this week amid a drought blamed on El Nino, large sections of the city's hillside slums have long been coping with a lack of access to drinking water. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)FILAS DE MARICHES, Venezuela (AP) - While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.

Every two weeks, Naisi Obando and her children join the crowd at the water truck when it rumbles up a dusty road into their shantytown. They bring barrels to be filled with a gushing stream from the truck, and use garden hoses to siphon the water from the barrels down steep stairs to their home.

"We really suffer a lot to get water here," Obando said.


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