The world is depleting underground water reserves faster than they can be replenished due to over-exploitation [...]
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The available water for Cape Town will be fully utilised by 2019 as a result of both population and economic growth [...] The department called on Cape Town residents to use water more sparingly [...] The recycled water could be released into the main supply for public consumption within 18 months, with the city’s dams on the verge of running dry. [...] Cape Town – Water security is the biggest threat facing society and the South African public should be taking water issues more seriously, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has said. [...] “Ground water is a safe, clean and reliable supply and thereof addresses the national priorities,” he said. [...] it can take centuries, or even millennia, for groundwater levels to be replenished naturally. The Great Artesian Basin in Australia has water that is two million years old! [...] The party warned of the risk of the prospecting contaminating water. “The proposal by Shell to explore for gas over 90000km² of the southwestern Karoo Basin is premature and should not be entertained by the Petroleum Agency of SA,” DA water and environmental affairs spokesman Gareth Morgan said. The DA was concerned about the use [...] depending on the quality of rainfall either ground water (aquifers) or dam recharge is favoured. Even as our dams might be close to full, our underground water supplies might not be. [...] It is only a matter of time before boreholes and wellpoints start drying up and force homeowner to search for alternative sources of water. [...] |
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