Outraged activists and residents say this crisis has been years in the making. They blame officials' poor management and the failure to maintain aging water infrastructure. Much of it dates to the years just after the end of apartheid, when basic services were expanded to the country's Black ...
In response to these water restrictions350Africais calling on the government to declare the water scarcity crisis as a state of emergency. “The current drought period will not be alleviated by placing water restrictions on communities. Rather, fossil fuel industries, the largest users and po...
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in terms of impact on humanity, followingweapons of mass destructionand extreme weather events, though water issues were ranked behind other global risks on subsequent reports. In 2023, theUnited Nations World Water Development Reportconveyed animminentrisk of a global water crisis and urged greater ...
Political economy of water reallocation in South Africa: Insights from the Western Cape water crisisThe severity of the recent drought combined with significant population pressure in the Western Cape Province has exposed flaws within extant water resource governance structures and institutional arrangements...
Its purpose was to avoid the problem of water crisis at the end of the century. • Ten resolutions were made, including assessment of water resources, community water supply, agricultural water use, research and development of industrial technologies, the role of water in combating desertification...
2: Present State of the Water Crisis: Where do we Stand? According to an article inState of the Planetby Peter Glick, “The most serious unresolved water problem is the continued failure to meet the basic human need for water” (Kennedy 61). Olga Cossi states in her book, W...
In Brazil, a country with overall low water stress [11], Sao Paulo faced the driest year in history in 2014, in an unprecedented water crisis, explained not only by climate change but also environmental and managerial factors [18,19]. The United States, a nation rich in natural and ...
Higher leakage rates in London than in Phnom Penh underscore a long-running policy argument March 16 2024 South Africa South Africa’s infrastructure crisis deepens as Johannesburg taps run dry Parts of the country’s biggest city have been without running water for almost two weeks amid a heatwa...
The Global Groundwater Crisis. Nat. Clim. Chang. 2014, 4, 945–948. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Mackellar, N.C.; Dadson, S.J.; New, M.; Wolski, P. Evaluation of the JULES Land-Surface Model in Simulating Catchment Hydrology in Southern Africa. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. ...