The water crisis in the Western Cape is just a small taste of what awaits us.
But it can buy time with emergency measures and improved efficiency.
Readers write in about the ANC, and water in Cape Town.
A new coal-fired utility planned for Limpopo will contribute to global warming, and climate change will affect its ability to run efficiently.
The water tables must surely turn because the tables always turn when the chips are down.
Most water sources in Southern Africa cross at least ond border.
As drought continues to cripple the country, already scarce groundwater reserves are being plundered without oversight.
Citizens should not be plugging the gaps created by feckless politicians.
Crops should be in the ground and white maize starting to germinate. But only half the national crop has been planted and less than that will survive.
By law, the state is the custodian of the country’s water resources, but the private sector can help the public sector build new infrastructure.
Ten percent of municipalities’ water – half a billion cubic metres totalling R3-billion – is stolen.
Our water-agriculture nexus has been broken, just like its energy component was broken seven years ago by the same kind of political paralysis.
Paulistanos are quickly learning to use water wisely as the reality of the drought hits them.
The elderly in a North West village wait in vain for the water minister while youths continue to protest against the lack of service delivery.
Costs have soared inexplicably following a high-profile political bid to fix the water problems in Limpopo.
Despite hundreds of millions of rands being spent over a decade, the people of this Limpopo town do not have a regular supply of water.
South Africa’s electricity crisis is a grim portent: soon, we’ll be in the same boat with water.
Eskom’s electricity woes have hastened the failure of water infrastructure around the country.
Political will and administrative and regulatory changes are needed to reduce the country’s water problems.
Water scarcity is here and we need to act now, as this is more difficult to solve than the electricity crisis.