Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Mongabay
Aug 11, 2022, 6:25 pm154 pts
A drought-stricken South African coastal metropolis, facing a likely large-scale shutdown of its municipal water supply this month or next, has resorted to setting up boreholes to provide groundwater to large public hospitals and schools. But this short-term emergency course of action comes with serious…

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