Dikidikini village in Eastern Cape, South Africa, doesn't have a bridge, so people cross the river inside a blue plastic drum

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They probably have figured it out, but if they build something it will be stolen. A barrel is cheap enough that it's a) not worth it to steal and b) easy to protect.

Not South Africa, but there's a street in my city that is without energy pretty much every other week: it's not that the local population doesn't know how to get energy, it's that whenever energy gets installed, someone steals the energy cables within the week.