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In Cape Town, South Africa there's a new water crisis.

There was a drought four years ago and all the water nearly dried up.

But now, the city's got lots of water and private homes have full swimming pools.

Khayelitsha is Cape Town's biggest and poorest township.

Here, there's very little water.

Shadrack Mogress says it's worse than the drought four years ago.

There's water in townships like Khayelitsha but they're close to community toilets.

Residents like Sandile Zatu have to collect water every morning.

South Africa's the most unequal country in the world.

The World Bank says racism is also a big part of the problem.

Cape Town authorities provided water for the townships during Covid.

But this has stopped.

Zahid Badroodien says there's a growing illegal population.

The authorities can't provide for them.

The population continues to grow and there'll be more droughts in the future.

But there's still no development in the area.

Jo Barnes thinks the authorities have failed.

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