ByKim Harrisberg and Claudio Accheri
Around the world, stronger El Nino weather patterns and climate change are bringing harsher and more frequent droughts – and already-dry southern Africa has been particularly hard hit.
Water shortages have killed crops, forced farmers to migrate to look for work, hobbled the hydropower dams much of the region depends on for electricity, and threatened the region’s rich wildlife as water-holes disappear.
In many rural villages, limited access to water has resulted in near-daily negotiations about how the little available should be shared and used, and how more might be acquired. In the drought-parched village of Vuna, talks have led to water being trucked in, bath-water being shared – and plenty of thirsty animals…Read more>>
