
People of Note - Kevin Winter
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In this uncertain world we are living in - what with the global Covid pandemic and global warming to name a few of the existential crises we seem to be facing - it's often said that "the next great war will be fought over water". Somebody who has spent much of his professional life considering this most valuable of resources, is UCT's Dr Kevin Winter. Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Dr Winter is also lead researcher at UCT's Future Water Institute, and is widely published on urban water management. He sprang to public prominence in the approach to the near calamitous "Day Zero", a couple of years ago, when Cape Town almost became the first major city in the world to run out of drinking water. Dr Winter is my guest on "People of Note"......