Mayotte on the brink of conflagration: an island also threatened by the water crisis

2023-04-24 07:40:20

In his bathroom, Anlaouiya has placed a large tub with a lid, next to his bathtub. It is there, when there is no cut, that it stores water that has become so precious in Mayotte. “When there is no water, I shower with a container,” she explains. Because, since the beginning of December, at her home, in La Vigie on Petite Terre, one of the two islands that make up Mayotte, there are two cuts a week. Wednesdays and Saturdays. But a third cut hangs in the face of the inhabitants. Because Mayotte is thirsty.