Namibia: Are Overflowing Drains in Windhoek a Public Health Hazard Waiting to Explode? – Opinion

Anyone who lives in or regularly drives around Windhoek will be familiar with an increasingly unpleasant feature of life in parts of the city: the stench of overflowing sewers and wastewater running along streets, through open spaces and, at times, close to homes.

This is not merely an aesthetic problem.

It raises a more serious question: when sewage repeatedly escapes from the system and remains in places where people live, walk and play, at what point does an inconvenience become a…