At the Tongogara Refugee Camp in a semi-arid part of Zimbabwe, where over 17,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique reside, water was extremely scarce.

However in 2018, the situation at the camp improved tremendously. There is no more waiting for hours. New high-capacity boles and an irrigation system were installed with funding from the African Development Bank. All the ten sections of the camp and surrounding communities now receive piped water because five boreholes were drilled, two in the camp and three in the neighbouring communities. The total pumping capacity of the boreholes is 28,000 liters per hour, powered by solar panels.