The mid-summer drought and animal diseases resulted in reduced crop yields and hurt the poultry, piggery and cattle sectors

More than half of the sites showed a high health risk if water was used for irrigation

Tiny bugs – water hyacinth planthoppers – have reduced the coverage of an invasive superweed to below 5%

Untreated effluent from textile factories in in Lesotho, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Madagascar pours into rivers, contaminating the water