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CHAPTER 12: WATER SUPPLY PLANNING FOR
INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION
The daily burden of fetching water..•
Portrait of love
She's oldnow, my wife;
She is old tmder those
Four gaUons of water,
(It was said taps in the streets
Would be our new rivers).
But my wife fetches the water
(Down SBcond Avenue)•••
N.S. Ndebele. quotedin Chapman. M.led), 1982. A Century of South African Poetry. AD.
Donker, Johannesburg. 397 p. (Note: Water is generally carried in a 20 or 25 I container,
usually on the head, or sometimes in a wheelbarrow 11 gallon equals approximately 4.5 I ­
see Chapter 20 for an exact conversion). The phrase "Down Second Avenue". may well
have been taken from the following: Mphahlele. E., 1971. Down Second Avenue. new
edition. Faber and Faber. London. 222 p.l.