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SWAZILAND: More Boreholes, No Water
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - In the drought-stricken area of Siteki, Tibuyile Maziya has been trying to fill up her four 20-litre buckets with water at a community for the last four hours. With a baby on her back and two more buckets to fill up, 19-year-old Maziya says she walks to this well at least three times a week to get water for her family of 15.
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ZAMBIA
: Fishing in Troubled Waters
By Zarina Geloo*

LUSAKA
 - In two decades of fishing on the Zambezi, Darius Wamulume has never seen anything like this. With deep ulcerations and tissue decay, the fish he has caught recently is too unsightly to sell and too suspect to eat.
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WATER-BOTSWANA: A Garden In the Heart of the Village
By Nicholas Mokwena & Terna Gyuse
MOKOBENG, Botswana - Look, there's no drama with the borehole in Mokobeng. And that's the way it should be.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Watching the Water Flow Away
By Zenaida Machado
MAPUTO - Less than 100 kilometres from the second-largest dam in Africa, women walk with their babies strapped on their back, water pails balanced on their heads.
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WATER-MOZAMBIQUE: Remote Villages Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
By Jessie Boylan
MCONDECE, Mozambique - "This is where we get our water from," says a villager on the footpath leading out of Mcondece. Branches and other debris float on the surface of the sluggish, murky brown creek.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Addressing Water Wastage
By Patrick Burnett
CAPE TOWN - How do you fix a leaking pipe?
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WATER-ZIMBABWE
: New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace
By 
Vusumuzi Sifile
SHAMVA, Zimbabwe
 - Twenty years ago, Isaac Chidavaenzi would worry when his neighbours set up vegetable gardens on river banks, trying to get closer to water sources. The number of gardens on the rivers' banks has now decreased, but Chidavaenzi is even more worried.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lack of Clean Groundwater a Health Threat
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO - As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe's groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera outbreak.
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SOUTH AFRICA: We Have Land Rights but No Water Rights - Farmers
By Fidelis Zvomuya
JOHANNESBURG - Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa’s driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Too Much Water and Not Enough to Drink
By Letuka Mahe
MASERU - Mmankosana Letsoela has been queuing since 5am to collect water. You would think that arriving so early at the bore-hole water pump; she would be the first in line.
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SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Back Policy With Funding
By Kelvin Kachingwe
MANSA, Zambia - Water- and sanitation-related diseases cost communities dearly, particularly in rural Zambia.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Neglected Land Washing Away
By Patrick Burnett

MASERU - Damage to wetlands high in Lesotho's Maluti mountains has impacts on the health of the whole of the Orange-Senqu river system.
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AGRICULTURE: Can South Africa Afford to Export Virtual Water?
By Patrick Burnett
KAKAMAS, South Africa - Near the banks of the Orange River, farm manager Le Roux Viljoen sends off an SMS to a weather station and receives an almost instantaneous response telling him the temperature, wind direction and estimated evaporation index.
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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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