An acute water scarcity has hit Pishegu, a farming community in the Karaga district of Northern region putting residents’ lives and properties at risk. Pishegu is one of the many communities in the region where the Water Company Limited is ineffective and residents have been living decades without clean water. The community with a total population of 2500 locals are in routine competition with animals for water from a dried up dam which medics have declared unsafe for consumption. The only reliable source of water aside two dysfunctional boreholes is the dam found few meters from the community constructed by the locals two decades ago. Residents spend days and nights in search of water. Most children have also been forced to sometimes abandon classes and assist parents…