SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town Water Supply Crisisdoi:10.1111/j.1467-6346.2018.08158.xAfrica Research Bulletin Economic Financial & Technical
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...
For example, in the 1980s, South Africa used to price water at 30% of the operation and maintenance costs [9,10]. However, water markets are fast growing, stimulating water pricing from an opportunity cost perspective through the interaction between demand and supply forces [11]. This has ...
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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 ...
The time has come to accelerate solutions to the factors threatening the water supply. If we do not act, economies and communities will be left to try to cope with the consequences. WASH is also at the forefront of climate change, as climate change is escalating the water crisis everywhe...
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...
“non-revenue water,” in which treated water is never used because it is lost to leaks in the water supply pipes. In theUnited States, for example, non-revenue water averages around 20 percent; a remarkable loss of potable water. Economic water scarcity can also result from unregulated ...