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National Council members this week criticised the government’s water supply budget, saying many rural communities continue to face severe shortages despite repeated promises and funding allocations.<\/em><\/p>\n Debating the N$1.27-billion budget allocated to water and marine resources under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, parliamentarians called for the urgent implementation of stalled projects and warned that bureaucracy continues to delay access to clean water across the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> National Council members this week criticised the government’s water supply budget, saying many rural communities continue to face severe shortages despite repeated promises and funding allocations. Debating the N$1.27-billion budget allocated to water and marine resources under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, parliamentarians called for the urgent implementation of stalled projects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00420432:79a9e47f9e18bd49056b00580489fc52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11709,7260,4706,724,257,6309,254,19987,10525],"class_list":["post-233247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dry","tag-mps","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taps","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00420432:79a9e47f9e18bd49056b00580489fc52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233247","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=233247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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