Such a burden has led many to the conclusion that per capita water usage must be correlated to water accessibility - those who have poor access will not use as much water. This paper aims to investigate this through a study of water usage in rural East Africa. The study queried ...
South Africa is a water-scarce country and based on current usage and trends, the demand for water by 2025 is estimated to exceed the availability due to increasing demands from a variety of competing users for the available water resources (DWS, 2017). Urbanization and industrialization are exp...
Although groundwater use for mining is still low at 4% of total usage, the region is currently witnessing a surge in mining operations, and a significant growth in water requirements is envisaged for mining development.OLA BUSARIBusari, O. 2009 "Groundwater use in parts of the Limpopo Basin,...
Agriculture water management is important in that agriculture already accounts for about 60% of the freshwater usage in South Africa (Bronkhorst et al., 2017; Von Bormann and Gulati, 2014). An in-depth groundwater assessment is needed to provide an evidence based expansion of irrigated areas ...
The given pie charts represent the proportion of water usage for various purposes in six different areas in the World.As an overall trend, the main water consumption in North America and Europe was for industrial usage while it was primarily agricultural use in South America, Asia...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government urged people to restrict water usage Monday as reservoir levels drop and rainfall is not expected until December. Many parts of the nation of over 58 million people are facing water scarcities as summer arrives in the Southern Hemisphere and climate...
A report published last year by the national department of water and sanitation is damning. Its monitoring of water usage by municipalities found that 40% of Johannesburg's water is wasted through leaks, which includes burst pipes. In recent days, even residents of Johannesburg's more affluent ...
Badroodien was confident that the city will be ready to deal with another drought with the preparation that is undertaken while encouraging people to continue to be water-wise as they are still responsible for the water usage.■ A worker washes a car at a car wash station in Cape Town, So...
The study further reveals a continually improving trend of coordinated development within the water–economic–ecological system in the five northwestern provinces of China, indicating that water usage per ten thousand GDP is the primary obstacle. This research enriches our understanding of the ...
However, water usage in 2016 was exceptional. This is because in the past, several local farmers were dairy producers and they irrigated their land to grow pastures for their livestock. However, due to various reasons such as livestock insecurity and declining subsidies for seeds, many farmers ...