NamWater work ongoing — a 10-hour shutdown for booster-pump and pipeline upgrades, announced for 23 April 2026, was postponed to avoid the town's annual trade fair, with a new date still to be announced (The Namibian, 21 April 2026).
Opuwo's bulk water comes from NamWater boreholes. Heavy rain in April 2025 damaged the treatment plant, the western borehole and several pipeline sections, leaving taps dry. NamWater reinstated the main 300 mm feeder pipeline that month and stationed a tanker for areas without piped supply (The Namibian, 7 April 2025).
In April 2026 NamWater announced upgrades to booster pumps, new pipelines and chlorine dosing points on the lines supplying the Opuwo reservoir. A 10-hour supply interruption planned for 23 April 2026 to carry out the booster-pump and pipeline work was postponed so it would not clash with Opuwo's annual trade fair (28 April–2 May); NamWater said a new date would be communicated (The Namibian, 21 April 2026).
The longer-running picture: residents told NAMPA in February 2025 that the water crisis is 34 years old, with about 60% of the town's pipes scaled up by hard water, and that NamWater and the town council were formulating solutions "aimed at permanently resolving" it — wording residents have heard before. This board will record what actually lands, with dates.