“There have been many predictions and pronouncements in the past… that say South Africa will run out of [clean] water.” She said this was a possibility if South Africans did not help to prevent it [...]
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“There have been many predictions and pronouncements in the past… that say South Africa will run out of [clean] water.” She said this was a possibility if South Africans did not help to prevent it [...] Chapter 2 of the Constitution under Section 27 gives every South African the right to sufficient water. I suspect that those of us who are fortunate enough to have sufficient access don’t always realize exactly how difficult life can be without it. Imagine not being able to wash your body, your clothes, your food or [...] When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace [...] South Africa has a R2bn-a-year water infrastructure backlog, half the world’s average annual rainfall, had already allocated at least 95% of its available fresh water by 2005. [...] We should rememer that the water that today gives us life is also the water that gave life to the dinosaurs. Water is one of the oldest sources of life [...] IT’S ONE thing to flick the light switch and find that you remain in darkness; it’s quite another when you can’t flush the toilet. [...] Capetonians have been warned to adhere to restrictions on using water to water gardens or face stiff penalties. [...] An increasingly popular tend among these individuals is to harvest rainwater for use inside their home. Their rainwater tank replaces [...] IT HAS been six years since Anglo Coal established a wetland in Mpumalanga to “offset” its encroachment on another of the province’s wetlands. Wetlands cover a mere 2.4% of South Africa’s total 122-million hectare surface area, but the benefits they deliver, from water purification to tourism, far exceed their size. They are South Africa’s most [...] Mpumalanga has declared the town of Ermelo a disaster area amid a looming water crisis [...] |
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