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LESOTHO-WATER: One Dollar Per Square Metre, Now Move
By Thabo Mohale
MASERU - The construction of a two billion dollar dam in Metolong, some 35 kilometres outside of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, is being welcomed by people in and around the city who will gain access to clean and safe drinking water when construction is completed in 2013.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Floods - Breaking the Cycle
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - The fourth largest river in Africa, the mighty Zambezi, is a lifeblood to 32 million people, from land-locked Zambia to Mozambique on the Indian Ocean. But its blessing is also its curse.
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SWAZILAND: Add Water and Stir
By Phathizwe-Chief Zulu
MAPLOTINI, Swaziland - What is the first step towards transforming life in a hardscrabble rural community? Address issues of water.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Groundwater Still Underutilised
By Miriam Mannak
JOHANNESBURG - Despite the significant role groundwater could play in alleviating poverty, improving food security and contributing to overall development in Southern Africa, a lack of skills, finances and awareness of the resource means only a small percentage of the region's supplies are tapped into.
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Q&A: Why Sanitation Is the Forgotten Sister
Busani Bafana interviews NOMA NESENI, WSSCC water, sanitation and health coordinator
BULAWAYO - As part of the International Year of Sanitation in 2008, Zimbabwe developed a national strategy for sanitation, launched in February 2008. Just five months later, a cholera outbreak that was to claim over 4,000 lives began.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Wastewater Is a Resource
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - South Africa faces chronic water shortages, yet billions of litres are flushed away every year. Being one of the driest countries in the world, the conservation of water resources and managing wastewater should be a top priority for government.
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WATER-ANGOLA: Smart Relief Needed as Floodwaters Fall
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - The flood waters are starting to recede as the rainy season ends for another year, but while the emergency is over in southern Angola, the long term outlook is bleak.
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ZIMBABWE: Long Road to Water Sustainability
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - As funds begin trickling in for Zimbabwe’s reconstruction efforts, the rebuilding of infrastructure battered by years of neglect is set to gobble a huge chunk.
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WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Strengthening River Basin Management
By IPS Correspondent
GABORONE - Many of the adverse effects of floods which swamped northwest Botswana in early March could have been avoided if the Okavango River Basin Commission (OKACOM) had an early warning system in place.
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NAMIBIA: Tens of Thousands Displaced by Flooding
Moses Magadza interviews SIMON NHONGO, UN Resident Coordinator for Namibia
WINDHOEK - Namibia is experiencing flooding on a scale last seen nearly 50 years ago. The northern parts of the country are the worst hit.
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ZIMBABWE: Researchers Developing New Ways to Purify Water
By Busani Bafana and Zahira Kharsany
BULAWAYO - Scientists at Bulawayo's National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have embarked on research to develop simple and affordable water purification methods, as more than a billion people live without safe drinking water in developing countries.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Water Meters for the Poor: New Name, Old Problems
By Raffaella Delle Donne
CAPE TOWN - Many poor communities in South Africa continue to struggle for their constitutional right to clean, safe drinking water.
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AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Water Makes the Difference
By Pilirani Semu-Banda
LILONGWE - Water has become the very essence of economic development for a rural community of Ngolowindo, in Malawi’s lake district of Salima, where households are reducing poverty thanks to irrigation.
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African governments struggle to curb industrial water pollution - Zenzele Ndebele reports.
In Women's words: Health Systems Failing Women
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Adawoko Williams about community involvement in water issues.
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Matsepo Makhubela, Strategy and Policy analyst with South African Water Affairs.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Richard Heldon, business analyst about water funding in Africa.
African Ministers meet to discuss water challenges in Africa,  Zenzele Ndebele and Naseem Ackburally  report.
Climate Change is already drying up Africa's rivers, bust  Zenzele Ndebele finds out the science is not yet precise.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Annabel Waitita, from the Institute of Environment, about women and water resources, during the 2and Africa Water Water Week, in Midrand, South Africa.
Jamillah Mwanjisi - Excutive Secretary of the African Civil Society on Water  (ANEW), Jamillah Mwanjisi tells Naseem Ackburally, that  corruption is still robbing millions of Africans access to water.
Lameck Masina speaks to women in rural parts of Malawi, who tell him how   tap water has improved their lives.
Zenzele Ndebele finds that generating income and maintaining an improved water source go hand in hand in Bulawayo.
Phiri residents won a water rights case against the government. Rejane Claasen investigates


Time to focus on underground pollution
By Lani van Vuuren
THE pollution of South Africa's surface water has received much attention over the years, but degradation of underground supplies has gone largely unnoticed - until now.
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Borehole maintenance challenges in southern Africa
By Barbara Lopi
Clean groundwater is vital to at least 70 percent of the population in southern Africa, yet too many wells and boreholes are not operated efficiently, or are simply abandoned.
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AFRICA MUST BE HEARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
by Wangari Maathai
While in wealthy countries the looming climate crisis is a matter of concern, in Africa, which has hardly contributed to climate change, it is a matter of life and death, writes Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, member of Kenya’s Parliament and the founder of the Green Belt Movement.

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