Hundreds of Harare residents are forced to drink water from contaminated wells despite a worsening cholera epidemic.
Zimbabwe has declared an emergency and appealed for international help to battle a cholera outbreak that has killed 575 people, with 12,700 reported cases of the disease, according to the United Nations.
Economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, isolated by Western countries under Robert Mugabe's increasingly authoritarian rule, has left the health system ill-prepared to cope with the cholera epidemic that it once would have prevented or easily treated.
Sonia Legg reports.
