Africa

Water, Africa's Gold: How water is now more expensive than food in parts of the Continent

DTE Staff

Water, Africa’s Gold: Climate change, deforestation behind Madagascar’s water scarcity


Madagascar, though blessed with abundant water, has recently undergone a change in its hydrological cycle, due to global warming, leading to drought and famine
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Water, Africa’s Gold: The Nile has been contested for long; it should now unite, say experts


As Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile nears completion, experts in the country say the Nile should be a source of cooperation, not conflict
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Water, Africa’s Gold: How poverty exacerbated Nigeria’s acute water crisis


Lack of clear government funding led to avoidable deaths from water-borne diseases like cholera
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Water, Africa’s Gold: Pan-continental shortage forces Africans to spend more on water than food


Women and children in Africa spend 4.5 million years collecting water every year: A pan-continental shortage has made hunt for water a daily exercise and forced Africans to spend more on water than on food
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Water, Africa’s Gold: Kenya’s urban slums need water, even as lakes Victoria, Turkana in trouble


Urban poor in Kenya bear brunt of water scarcity due to a number of reasons, even as trans-border lakes are on the verge of dying
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Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many


Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease
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Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse


South Africa is using algae to treat its wastewater and reuse it in a number of provinces
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