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By Robert Erasmus, Managing Director at Sanitech South Africa’s water crisis is no longer looming. It is already here. Ageing infrastructure, rising pollution levels and increasing demand are converging to create a national emergency. Clean, safe water is critical not just for public health but for economic development and social stability. To move forward, water […]
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Governments who fail to develop robust strategic responses to climate change and the water infrastructure crisis will increasingly find themselves at odds with their populations over the next two decades. This disruption to the social contract between governments and citizens will go far beyond the service delivery and supply interruptions currently making news headlines. Rather […]
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“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish”. This call by the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres on the sidelines of COP 27 remains relevant as the UN 2023 Water Conference which opened on Wednesday in New York. Seven years from the deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals, we are still far from achieving universal […]
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Ruby McCulloch, 17, is a global winner of the Rise Challenge by Schmidt Futures and theRhodes Trust – one of 100 young people who will be supported with benefits to serveothers for life. Ruby tells how the Cape water crisis helped launch her Rise journey… Despite always being somewhat of a diligent learner, Ruby McCulloch […]
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By Ignatius Banda When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the predictions were dismissed as alarmist. Yet, as climate uncertainty upends water availability in Africa, researchers say conflicts arise among local communities and across borders over access to scarce water resources. In a commentary released in […]
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