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South Africa: And There Is The Water Crisis
March 10th, 2015
Several articles on South Africa’s water challenge. The first, via Business Day, offers some commentary on South Africa problems: ON FEBRUARY 7 and 8, maintenance was scheduled on the Eikenhof Pump Station, one of Rand Water’s satellite booster pumping stations for water extracted from the Vaal Dam, which forms part of the Johannesburg water network. This […]
Read more »Plan Megacities With Water In Mind
February 16th, 2015
Via South Africa’s Business Day, an interesting look at the rise of megacities and the resulting impact on water stress: MOST of the megacities housing more than 10-million people that will spring up around the world in the next 100 years will be in Africa, which makes it critical to plan now for their sustainability […]
Read more »South Africa’s Water Needs
December 26th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of South Africa’s water needs & constraints: Over the coming decades, South Africa will face constraints associated with water availability that will have a broad impact on its economy and could temper economic growth. The water-intensive coal power production and mining sectors in particular will be impacted […]
Read more »World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
November 16th, 2011
Courtesy of Global Geopolitics & Political Economy, an article examining a recent agreement between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic analysts warn that foreign investors will prevent the […]
Read more »South Africa’s ‘Strategic Water Intervention’ in Lesotho
January 11th, 2009
Via The Water Is Life blog, an interesting look at the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, an intricate network of tunnels and dams diverting water from Lesotho’s mountains to South Africa which South African officials have described as a “strategic intervention to ensure the water security of the country’s richest province Gauteng, which is expected to […]
Read more »Positive Water Politics: South Africa and Botswana Work Together
August 1st, 2008
From the Sunday Standard, news that Botswana and South Africa recently extended their bilateral relations by signing a cross boarder water agreement, aimed at improving the living standards of the people of the two southern African states. As the article notes: “…The two countries, which share a long border, are signatories to two shared river […]
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