SAFEWATERS - Promotion of Water and Sanitation at Community Level

Climate change heavily affects the water cycle through increasing frequency, severity of floods and droughts and increasing rainfall variability. Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that causes cholera, is not only a threat during floods, but also thrives during periods with little rain and hot temperatures. Transferred via person-to-person contact, contaminated water and food. During times of low precipitation and high temperatures, the concentration of the bacteria in the water increases, making the disease more dangerous. Okoyong is a village in Manyu division with no affordable drinking water source. The villagers depend on springs for drinking water, which dry off during the dry season with extreme high temperatures. In Cameroon and Southwest in particular, Cholera outbreak was declared by health authorities on 29 October 2021 and has been ongoing since then.