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Since June 18, 2008 electric power supply on Sansibar Island has been reestablished. Altogether the whole island has been 4 weeks without electricity. Some areas will receive power supply only gradually. For more than 4 weeks Zanzibar island was without electricity.Electricity got quickly restored in the mainland. What might be difficult for business and particular tourism, is becoming dangerous for the local population particularly living in rural areas of Zanzibar. There are fears that communicable diseases could break out at Michenzani Flats, whose occupants depend on piped water, and which lack pit latrines. Pumps at Sateni water plant are not working and are causing shortages in various part of Zanzibar. Most water pumps on the island work with electricity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7427957.stm A 20-litre container of water was selling for between Sh700 to Sh1,000, up from between Sh300 and Sh500 before the blackout. Also hard-hit by the power crisis is Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, where available generators cannot provide the hospital with all the electricity it needs. PAI-Partner Aid International, started to distribute water to local rural communities on Zanzibar Island to approx. 10.000 beneficiaries. Further preventive activities are planned to prevent a cholera and other disease outbreak. PAI is involved in vocational education in cooperation with the vocational training authority of Tanzania on Zanzibar Island. The project was sucessfully closed by the end of June 2008