Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero. In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already in, the Cape Town kind of measures need to be adopted with immediate effect. On the 1st of August as I landed at Chennai airport, I was expecting some big billboards… Continue reading A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing Day Zero
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Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa
Mike Muller Although nature based solutions are attractive, these solutions are not the ‘green bullet’ that will solve the world’s water problems. Each year UNESCO releases a World Water Assessment Report, a document that explores potential solutions to the globe’s water problems. The 2018 report will focus on nature based solutions. The authors suggest that… Continue reading Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa
Notes from the future: A film on Cape Town Water Crisis
The Cape Water Crisis. A film by Andrea Gema Films, produced by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southern Africa. Cape Town, South Africa, is dealing with a massive and serious water crisis. Cape Town residents have been told not use more than 50 litres of water a day. Fresh water shouldn’t be used for flushing the toilet… Continue reading Notes from the future: A film on Cape Town Water Crisis
Let’s not make Cape Town face of our water future
Mega cities, the face of aspiration and progress of the modern world, have a bad news in Cape Town that has become the face of Water Emergency. According to the United Nations, water scarcity already hits more than 40 percent of the globe’s population and is expected to aggravate further due to global warming that… Continue reading Let’s not make Cape Town face of our water future
What Cape Town can learn from Windhoek on surviving droughts
Dian Spear Cape Town is experiencing the worst drought in 100 years Human population growth, urbanisation, and climate change are all changing the world. To adapt, attitudes and behaviour must change and unsustainable attitudes and behaviours must shift. In addition, the social and political will to implement technological solutions must increase. Without these changes the… Continue reading What Cape Town can learn from Windhoek on surviving droughts
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