With Cape Town’s severe drought in mind it is alarming to read in this article from The Conversation about the apparently outsized role of foreign private sector players in discussions over possible responses to the crisis at Lake Chad, including a proposal to divert water from the Congo River
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Results6Mother Nature is on fire again
Burn it to the ground, build it up again. Remind you of something?
A silver linings kind of a day
We are very good at Bad News. Fear, negativity, pessimism … we hold them all close. Strife, forbearance and survival are our toolkit. But [… insert
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We have water, let’s spray some around
Switching on massive fountains in a deserted city centre as a drought comes to end seems like total madness
Spekbombing and other suburban dreams
As the windy season gets underway in the Cape of Hope and Storms we sit on a couple of ticking timebombs, one of them a natural
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Precious drinking water running down the toilet
As water experts gather for seminars to discuss the Cape’s crisis and pop groups record songs to help people manage the time they spend in the
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