Water Shortages

Impossible choices in QwaQwa: What it takes to get water

Article Bongekile Macupe - 7 Feb 2020

A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as trading sex for water

Remove borders to up free knowledge

Education Tawana Kupe - 15 Jan 2020

Boundaries at all levels limit the exchange of ideas necessary to resolve complex global problems

Billions spent, and a boy has died, but Giyani’s taps are still dry

Article Athandiwe Saba - 27 Sep 2019

It has been five years since a bulk water supply project was started in the Limpopo Bushveld but people still don’t have water

More irrigation, less migration

Africa Govan Whittles - 28 Sep 2018

The effect of climate change in Africa’s semi-arid countries is driving young people out of rural areas into cities

Nine hours of water a day for remote Australian communities

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Nov 2017

During the dry season, many communities in the Torres Strait Islands have their mains water supply limited to nine hours a day during the week.

How Cape Town can win support for the next round of water cuts?

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Oct 2017

Emulating some of the best elements of a save-water campaign, Cape Town now needs to show residents that the restrictions are fair.

Letters to the editor: June 9 to 14 2017

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Jun 2017

Readers write in about colonialism, and the Cape water crisis.

Modelling the Western Cape’s water future: prudent investment and management required

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 Jul 2016

Stellenbosch University WeCaGEM — Winner: Green Economy Modelling

Juba’s water vendors make a living, but it’s a cut-throat business

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 May 2016

Water pumped from the Nile is the only option for 98% of the residents of South Sudan's capital.

Citizens called on to monitor dams and rivers

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Mar 2016

Ordinary South Africans are helping monitor water resources amid worsening shortages under citizen and school programmes.

First water shortages, next is food

Article Sipho Kings - 21 Jan 2016

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.

Water be damned, the mines are what count

Article Sipho Kings - 19 Nov 2015

Past experience has shown that the government will continue to permit industry such as mining that destroys water supplies.

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