five-hundred miles away, in makhanda, population 70,000, some taps have already run dry.residents like noxolo saki inwat in lfor hours for a two day supply of drinking water so what have you been doing to cope? >> reporter: just how terrible? across south africa, that largely depends on where you live. in any city, you'll find a well- manicured and mostly white section, with first world living standards. across the way, what was officially a colored settlement, and growing out of it, an informal settlement, called sun city in this case, where living standards are as miserable as you'll find in any poor countrys here, amid tck-like homes, two water taps serve about 300 residents. water was running the day we visited and selina pikes seized thopportunity to wash her faly's clothes. >> some days maybe there can be no water>>or even a week eporter: a week, no water? >> a week no water here in sun city. >> reporter: to get a sense of the magnitude of the water crisis in khanda, we visited the settler's dam. there's a sign here that warnsto boatero slow, but as you can also see