To help mitigate the spread of the cholera outbreak in Grootfontein, its municipality has started providing water at different points as they look at addressing sanitation.

This was confirmed by Grootfontein mayor Moritz Gaingob during a briefing with Otjozondjupa Governor John ||Khamuseb.

According to the mayor, the council has spent about N$100,000 towards clean drinking water distribution and sanitation needs in the Kap n Bou and Blikkies informal settlements.
However, funds are fast depleting, with the council now looking at other monetary streams to keep up.

"Our interventions from the council side so far: we have gone out of our way because it's an emergency, which was not planned, so the N$100-thousand, which we have in the special council meeting, to provide these is depleted as we are speaking. We have identified water points, whereby we have used this N$100-thousand in the hot zone in Kap n Bou and Blikkiesdorp, or the new Blikkiesdorp. We have tried our level best with the limited resources which we have," Gaingob says.

Gaingob voiced concerns at the challenges of putting up toilet structures at the settlement at this stage.

"We are still struggling with the sanitation and toilet structures. Cholera is luckily a treatable disease, and it can also be prevented. So the concern which we have also in Grootfontein, like the governor alluded to before, is that the sewerage system is a huge concern. It was built for 10-thousand people, but today we are more than 40-thousand people. So I'm still pleading and calling upon many other stakeholders to come on board to help Grootfontein to see whether we can not renovate or expand our sewerage systems so that we can do away with this kind of outbreak."

Otjozondjupa Governor. John ||Khamuseb called on regional councils and municipalities to realign budgets and ensure sewerage systems are expanded and fenced off from public and livestock use.

"Let us identify the needs of the people who voted us into power, the communities that we are serving, and the needs of our communities that we are serving, and let us take the hygiene and the health of the communities that we are serving on a serious note so that we at least have an idea of how we are going to involve big engineering companies to realign the sewage ponds."

||Khamuseb also implored council to look into recycling sewerage water for agricultural purposes for lucerne.
The cholera outbreak was declared in the Grootfontein district in November 2025. 

To date, the health directorate has recorded 108 suspected cases, of which 32 are confirmed by laboratory tests. 
No death has been recorded; however, a two-year-old girl is admitted to Grootfontein Hospital with her condition described as stable.