Some 110 people died in southern Somalia on Thursday and Friday as a result of drought, Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has said. “About 110 people have died in the past 48 hours due to drought and severe water-related diarrhea in southern Somalia, especially in the Bay and Bakool[…]
On Monday the City of Cape Town released the City’s top 100 water consumers. In a bid to quell continued water wastage, the City named and shamed roads within the metro that reflected the highest water consumption. Surprising to many residents, three Cape Flats roads, Haywood Road in Crawford, Manenberg[…]
The City of Cape Town will with effect from today begin to name and shame consumers who use water irresponsibly. The decision comes as dam levels in the Western Cape continue to drop. Officials say the dam levels now stand at 36.2 %. They say consumption has to drop drastically[…]
The City of Cape Town has once again appealed to residents and business to save water, as dam levels across the Western Cape have dropped to 36% on average. Mayoral Committee Member for Water in the City of Cape Town, Xanthea Limberg, says with the last 10% of a dam’s[…]
Average dam levels across the country have increased slightly and are up 0.6 percentage points compared to last year, the Department of Water and Sanitation said on Wednesday. The dam levels had risen to 55.56%, compared to 54.9% at the same time last year, spokesperson Mlimandlela Ndamase said. There was still[…]
The City of Cape Town said in a statement on Monday that the amount of water it has access to is less than the dam levels reported because of the difficulty in extracting the last 10% of water in dams. “With the last 10% of a dam’s water being unusable,[…]
In a unified khutbah by the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) on Friday, ulema across the Western Cape have been urged to conscientise Muslims on the country’s water crisis. Since November, Cape Town has been imposed with Level 3 water restrictions, due to the on-going drought. Residents are asked to ensure[…]
Prompted by a prolonged drought, the City of Cape Town is planning to move to level three water restrictions which include banning the use of sprinklers and hosepipes, a council statement said on Tuesday. A report on the planned move will be presented to a council meeting scheduled for October[…]
Child hunger and deaths are rising in Zimbabwe due to the worst drought in two decades, with thousands facing starvation by the end of the year without additional aid, an international charity said on Thursday. Southern Africa has been hard hit over the past year by drought exacerbated by El[…]
The Free State town of Kroonstad has made a desperate emergency appeal for water, as residents have virtually one week of water supply left. Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has dispatched its teams to Kroonstad, to provide bottles of water. Water is pumped from the river into the day[…]
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