According to a recent report by charities, Gaza’s only source of fresh water is contaminated with fertiliser and human waste. The water and waste infrastructure in Gaza has been slowly deteriorating for years now. War damage, political conflict and...
The Department of Water Affairs has a vision of a South Africa that has an embedded and actively applied culture of water conservation and water demand management in which all sectors share water resources in an equitable and sustainable manner....
For a continent where more than 300 million people lack access to safe drinking water, Africa is sitting on a lot of it. The journal Environmental Research Letters recently published a set of maps of groundwater resources in Africa, the results of...
Large corporations who have been buying up vast stretches of African farmland in recent years, whether based in Dubai or London, understand that it’s the access to water that they get from the land deals, which they often get for free and...