Brilliant! Stan and I should have thought of the "stop shaking hands" bit in Goma '94. Of course, the could use their Zim dollars to buy bottled water.

Turning off the water because chemicals are unavailable guarantees that the population will use contaminated water.

Tom
Mob runs riot as Zimbabwe runs out of water

Water supplies to residents in Harare were cut by the authorities yesterday as Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic tightened its grip and the city witnessed its worst unrest for a decade.

The Zimbabwe National Water Authority turned off the pumps in the capital after it ran out of purifying chemicals. With cholera cases soaring above 11,000 across the country, and an anthrax outbreak ravaging the the countryside, David Parirenyatwa, the Health Minister, urged Zimbabweans to stop shaking hands to avoid spreading disease.