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Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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African cities’ water crisis: ‘Too much, too little, too polluted’

Rapid urbanisation and flooding pose a risk to the continent’s cities that, by 2050, will be home to more than 900 million people, mostly living in slums

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read