{"id":224346,"date":"2026-02-19T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-a-r7-billion-dam-but-no-tap-water-for-local-villagers-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:52:19","slug":"lesotho-a-r7-billion-dam-but-no-tap-water-for-local-villagers-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-a-r7-billion-dam-but-no-tap-water-for-local-villagers-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: A R7-Billion Dam but No Tap Water for Local Villagers in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em> &#8220;We host this project. But we do not benefit,&#8221; says village spokesperson <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Communities living around the Metolong Dam, built at a cost of R7-billion to supply water to Maseru and other towns, have no access to tap water.<\/li>\n<li>Instead they rely on water from untreated wells and streams shared with livestock.<\/li>\n<li>Pleas from the Machache Water Supply Movement have been ignored by government.<\/li>\n<li>Minister of Natural Resources Mohlomi Moleko says the communities will be supplied by the Greater Maseru Water Supply&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190139.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We host this project. But we do not benefit,&#8221; says village spokesperson Communities living around the Metolong Dam, built at a cost of R7-billion to supply water to Maseru and other towns, have no access to tap water. Instead they rely on water from untreated wells and streams shared with livestock. Pleas from the Machache [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7146,4717,1407,7823,257,53704,254,21792,8542,6722],"class_list":["post-224346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dam","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-r7billion","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tap","tag-villagers","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}