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French state to pay Mayotte residents' water bills as crisis worsens

A Mayotte resident sits with packs of water she received at a distribution point for some of the island's most vulnerable people. © Chafion Madi / AFP

The French government says it will pick up the water bills of the 310,000 residents of France’s poorest department, Mayotte, which is suffering its worst drought since 1997. But poor management of resources is also to blame for the Indian Ocean archipelago’s water crisis.

Mayotte residents have had their water cut off two days out of every three for the last month.

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