The shortage of potable water in Yaounde is at its peak and it is becoming a difficult situation in city.

Neighborhoods like Damas, Emmana, Etoudi Olembe, Simbock, Nkoabang are the most affected by the situation.

Even though scarce and expensive, it is a lucrative business for others.
A Yaounde City dweller, Kamdem Frank, stated that he leaves the Emmana neighborhood to buy water at Ntongolo.

The shortage of potable water is real in Yaounde but inhabitants are surviving from other sources like boreholes, wells, and springs even though difficult to fetch.

Elyse Ebassa, a teenage girl at the Etoudie neighborhood pays a sum of 400frs per month to fetch water from a borehole whenever the spring is dry.

Meanwhile, young Gaetang and his kid brother, from Etoudie, represent a great number of kids who cover long distances descending and ascending the valleys and hills in search for spring water.

Eloundou Taedel, an inhabitant from Emmana told CRTV that he has consistently taken shot cuts for one week just to fetch water from a spring at Etoudie.
For the sake of her son, Nathalie Lema a nursing mother has no choice than to descend the Etoudie valley for spring water.

We are in the heart of the dry season where the water level keeps getting low and low. Government officials have promised to regulate the situation while inhabitants are anxiously waiting to see their dream come true.