According to the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), major rivers in Africa such as the Niger, Volta, Nile and Congo had below-average water flow in 2021.
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Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and other parts of the country face severe water shortages brought on by drought. The water shortage that major cities are facing is derived from a ... Read more »
The key interventions highlighted in the national, five-year plan include strengthening supply infrastructures for clean and safe water, establish and strengthen the Community ... Read more »
Uganda's government is evicting people and small businesses that have settled on the periphery of Kampala's wetlands. At the same time, corporates are taking up space and officials ... Read more »
The second in the series of sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilisers amid a global shortage looks at urine or what some experts call liquid gold. allAfrica's Melody ... Read more »
Poor sanitation accounts for 52% of the total disease burden in Malawi, with diarrhoea alone accounting for 7% of deaths in children under the age of five, latest statistics from ... Read more »
As the water crisis intensifies in Nelson Mandela Bay in the province of the Eastern Cape, people queued for hours to fill containers from Jojo tanks filled by municipal tankers, ... Read more »
Landfill sites pose a variety of risks to humans and the environment, as well as the possibility of releasing toxic leachate or fluids into our groundwater. But turning rotting ... Read more »
Half of wastewater treatment works in South Africa fail to treat sewage properly and in many cases fail to treat it at all, writes Steve Kretzmann for Ground Read more »
Over the last several years, major cities such as Cape Town, Sao Paulo and Barcelona have faced 'Day Zero' scenarios, characterised by the very real possibility o Read more »
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