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...
Water scarcity and alternative water sources in South Africa: can information provision shift perceptions?Consumer perceptions are key to the success of strategies to address water scarcity. A decision pathway survey was used to investigate attitudes amongst South Africans ( N = 668) in urban areas ...
AFRICA'S RECORD OF REGIONAL CO-OPERATION AND INTEGRATION This article deals with successive African attempts to achieve regional economic integration since African countries began achieving independence in the 1960s. The economic imperatives of integration in Africa notwithstanding, the articl... PS ...
AfricaCOVID-19In the light of the current situation regarding the COVID-19 disease, a discussion is attempted on the need for focusing on water scarcity in Africa and the important considerations to conserving water to fight against SARS-CoV-2 virus....
Impact of scarcity of water on public health in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 73 作者: R Nonceba Lubanga 摘要: South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that enshrines the basic right to sufficient water in its Constitution. However, much ...
Water scarcity has a further adverse impact on young girls and women in particular, who are most likely to have to fetch water, which in some parts of Africa can take up to six hours every day. Improving access to safe water, therefore, has society-wide effects: from basic health, ...
The role of increasing water scarcity is important because expanding existing systems is much more expensive per unit of water than the average cost used in these comparisons. This means that presented cost analyses probably underestimate the economic value of decentralized systems because the increasing...
Environmental water price is the cost of environmental damage caused by sewage, which is manifested in the cost of wastewater treatment. High-quality economic development requires paying attention to the scarcity of water resources, protecting the ecological environment, and achieving green and ...
Water scarcity is already the biggest challenge for global agricultural development [1], with one third of the population in developing countries living in water-scarce areas and fifty-four percent of agricultural land also being located in water-scarce areas [2,3]. In water-scarce areas, ground...
we draw on critical social sciences to explain urban water crises as generated by asymmetrical power relations that determine who controls water and how water is redistributed within a city12,13,14,15. This scholarship explains that conditions of water scarcity and limited access to water result fr...