(ERGO) – Around 1,000 drought-hit families in three areas in northern Buhodle are facing water scarcity after water deliveries from aid agencies stopped last month.
In Sool-joogto, where the wells have run dry after three years of drought, 600 families are now without water.
Water trucks take three hours to deliver water from Buhodle.
The Somali Red Crescent had been delivering water to these area from last November.
Omar Ahmed Abdullahi, 45, is living in Maygagle.
He came to the area because of the water deliveries.
Adan Warsame, 55, and his six children, the youngest aged two, have been using water they bought at the going rate of 180,000 shillings Ahmed and his family live in Go’ondale, 50 km north of Buhodle.
He does not know how long he can sustain this.
Despite the lack of water, some families in the area received food distributions of rice, flour, sugar and cooking oil from the UN’s World Food Programme.
Cooking without water has become a major challenge.