Leonard Matana. 69, filling up a plastic container with water at a communal tap in the township of Kwanobuhle in South Africa.
Leonard Matana. 69, filling up a plastic container with water at a communal tap in the township of Kwanobuhle in South Africa.

'Day Zero': This city is counting down the days until its water taps run dry

By Riaan Marais for CNN and Derek Van Dam, CNN
Photographs by Samantha Reinders and Riaan Marais for CNN

Updated 8:40 AM ET, Tue June 21, 2022

(CNN)Every day, Morris Malambile loads his wheelbarrow full of empty plastic containers and pushes it f