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South Africa: How The Rainbow Nation Dried Up
May 22nd, 2017
Courtesy of The Source, an interesting look at South Africa’s efforts to regain its adaptive capacity after suffering its biggest ever drought: South Africa holds a unique place in the international water sector. It’s a developing country, yet renowned for progressive water laws and advanced water policies. It offers an exemplary case study. Yet certain […]
Read more »Lesotho: Re-Evaluating Water Arrangements With South Africa
February 1st, 2017
Via Future Directions International, a report on Lesotho’s need to re-evaluate water arrangements with South Africa in wake of a record drought: In 1986, the governments of Lesotho and South Africa entered into a joint water supply enterprise titled the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). The primary purpose of the project was for South Africa to […]
Read more »Drought Pushes South Africa To Water, Energy, And Food Reckoning
January 19th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a detailed look at South Africa’s crisis as cities run dry and harvests retreat in an already reeling nation: January 7, 2016 could hardly have been worse in this thunderously beautiful, water-parched, and economically reeling nation of 55 million residents at the bottom of Africa. The South African rand slid in […]
Read more »South African Opposition Capitalises On Water Shortages
November 11th, 2015
Via Future Directions International, an interesting report on water politics of a different sort where the drought has drawn attention to the parlous state of water infrastructure in South Africa, a development that the political opposition has utilised to attack the ruling African National Congress: Background The drought in South Africa has continued to spread […]
Read more »South Africa: Drought May Cause Urban Water Shortages
October 23rd, 2015
Via Bloomberg, an article on South Africa’s water woes: Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa’s biggest city and the nation’s capital, may experience “localized problems” in water supply because of a drought and high demand, according to Rand Water Services Pty Ltd., which supplies Johannesburg and Pretoria. Residents should use water sparingly during the current period of […]
Read more »Botswana Capital’s Water-Supply Options Dry Up Amid Drought
September 23rd, 2015
Via Bloomberg, a report on the possibility that South Africa may cut off supplies to Gaborone (Botswana’s capital, which lies 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from the border with South Africa) in October: The possible disconnection in October of water supplies to Gaborone from a South African dam is expected to deepen the crisis in Botswana’s capital, […]
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