In Port Moresby, a city of one million people teeters on the edge of a water catastrophe not merely because a pipeline is failing, but because the ground beneath it carries unresolved debts — to ancestors disturbed, to landowners unheard, to a utility system long neglected. The Behori Clan's blockade of emergency repairs is, at its heart, a demand for recognition from people whose land and lineage have been treated as incidental to the machinery of modern infrastructure. What unfolds here is an ancient tension made urgent: the collision between the immediate needs of a city and the long-deferr
Port Moresby water crisis deepens as landowners block critical pipeline repairs
1 million Port Moresby residents face imminent water supply failure and cascading health, security, and economic consequences if pipeline repairs remain blocked.