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South Africa: Can Country Afford to Export Virtual Water?
IPS, 29 September 2009
Near the banks of the Orange River, farm manager Le Roux Viljoen sends off an SMS to a weather station and receives an almost instantaneous response telling him the temperature,… Read more »
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South Africa: Orange River Wetlands Need a Lifetime to Recover
IPS, 28 September 2009
Much of the internationally-recognised wetland surrounding the Orange River mouth has lost its rich green colour. Situated close to long-standing diamond mining operations, the… Read more »
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Lesotho: Journey of a Working River - Orange-Senqu
IPS, 26 September 2009
In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain to pass rocks… Read more »