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Old shoes and OMO: cracking the problem of urban water in Goma

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Community water committee, Goma. Picture: Chris Pycroft/DFID.

Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be one of the most difficult environments to deliver clean water. The city is built on the lava flows from nearby active volcanoes (the last major eruption was …