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Vital resource: Water from Angola’s highlands, which is the source of the Okavango Delta, moves hundreds of kilometres downstream, supporting people, farms and nature. Photos: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic Wilderness Project/Angola Image Bank
ANGOLAN HIGHLANDS WATER

First-of-its-kind study defines boundaries of Angola’s water tower

This is a crucial step towards the protection of the tower, which ensures water security for millions of people in the region

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
View of a small river in the Gomoti Plains area, a community run concession, on the edge of the Gomoti river system southeast of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
ANGOLA

Science’s burning questions about the Okavango River Basin are answered

Discoveries by the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project underscore the importance of the upper Okavango catchment in Angola, whose rivers and source lakes sustain the…

  • Steve Boyes
7 min read