A Limpopo district municipality’s plan to provide adequate clean running water to its 1.1 million people remains a pipe dream after Eskom failed to power up its boreholes, The Mopani district municipality has drilled more than 200 boreholes in the past three years, but the majority are not operational. For 22 years, the district has been virtually waterless after it was hard-hit by drought. In 2009, government declared the Mopani district municipality a disaster area after many years of poor rain. The situation became dire after two main water sources in the area, the Middle Letaba and Nsami d…