Being Green - 15 November 2019
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If you haven’t noticed that South Africa is facing a Water Crisis and that it is growing in fits and starts, then you are probably not on this planet. It’s a little easier to get off this planet in the south-western corner of the Western Cape around the Peninsula because our dams are looking more than reasonable and the landscape is still pleasantly green.
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was recently in Lesotho at a foundation-laying ceremony for a new phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The project provides 27% of the entire Vaal River integrated system, which is to say that’s it about a third of the water for our industrial heartland. Politicians do this sort of thing because it’s a requirement for a big cross-government agreement dating from 1986. Lesotho benefits by selling their water and South Africa gets the water.
Critics of the LHWP have said that Lesotho doesn’t really have a choice in this set-up, but that’s another story.
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was recently in Lesotho at a foundation-laying ceremony for a new phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The project provides 27% of the entire Vaal River integrated system, which is to say that’s it about a third of the water for our industrial heartland. Politicians do this sort of thing because it’s a requirement for a big cross-government agreement dating from 1986. Lesotho benefits by selling their water and South Africa gets the water.
Critics of the LHWP have said that Lesotho doesn’t really have a choice in this set-up, but that’s another story.
