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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Preparing for Flood Season
Ignatius Banda interviews FARID ABDULKADIR, Red Cross disaster management coordinator
BULAWAYO - Southern Africa is entering flood season. Governments and policy makers have been challenged to adopt a more preventive approach to disaster management by the Red Cross - what measures are in place?
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MAURITIUS: These Women Chose the Sea
By Nasseem Ackburally
PORT-LOUIS - She cannot swim, but Marie-Claite Hector is not afraid of the ocean. The 53-year-old pushes her small boat with all her strength towards the blue lagoon, starts the engine, and sets out to sea.
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ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers
By Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO - A project in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using "marginal water" to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living.
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MALAWI: Green Belt Initiative Taking Shape
By Charles Mpaka
BLANTYRE - Let the rains fail, even for several successive seasons, and Malawi should still be able to produce enough to feed itself.

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TANZANIA: Community Still Worried By Mine Contamination
By Jessie Boylan
TARIME DISTRICT, Tanzania - Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
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SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Turning Urine Into Gold
By Lewis Mwanangombe
LUSAKA - When he ordered his colleagues at the Water and Sanitation Association of Zambia to save all their urine in a plastic bottle in the office toilet, they thought he was mad. But German sanitation specialist Christopher Kellner wanted to demonstrate why he calls urine "liquid gold".
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ZAMBIA: Putting Waste to Work
By Lewis Mwanangombe
NDOLA, Zambia - When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as "Ku kalale" - the land of the white man. In the decades since, he has witnessed his Kabushi township outgrow the limited dreams of its planners.
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DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
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DR CONGO: Urban Water Supply Needs Attention
By Emmanuel Chaco
KINSHASA - Kinshasa's population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres - vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.
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WATER-ZAMBIA: Worries Ahead of Flood Season
By Lloyd Himaambo
SHANGOMBO DISTRICT, Zambia - 
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
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AFRICA: Water Summit Ends
By Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - As the Second Africa Water Week ends, participants have reiterated that lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation has a direct bearing on public health and the economy in Africa.
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WATER-AFRICA: Civil Society Demands Action, Not Words
By Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - "No more commitments... We have had enough of the promises. Can we please see something happening on the ground? Right now, it is business as usual and that’s why Africa is off-track on the MDG target."
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AFRICA: Taking the Lead on Water
By Zenzele Ndebele and Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - Water is a resource that binds people together, for better or worse.
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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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News in RSSThe Southern Africa Water Wire provides in-depth coverage of a diverse range of water-related issues in Southern Africa, linking water to economic development, social well-being and environmental protection. Local journalists from across the region explore the challenges, failures and successes of managing this vital resource. The Southern Africa Water Wire is commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

Lameck Mesina reports on access to water challenges in Malawi.
Burkinabé MP Yacouba Savadogo discute les défis sur la question de l'eau.
La gestion de l'eau est un clé développement, affirme Charles Gangoué
African governments struggle to curb industrial water pollution - Zenzele Ndebele reports.
In Women's words: Health Systems Failing Women
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Adawoko Williams about community involvement in water issues.
Naseem Ackbarally speaks to Matsepo Makhubela, Strategy and Policy analyst with South African Water Affairs.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Richard Heldon, business analyst about water funding in Africa.
African Ministers meet to discuss water challenges in Africa,  Zenzele Ndebele and Naseem Ackburally  report.
Climate Change is already drying up Africa's rivers, bust  Zenzele Ndebele finds out the science is not yet precise.
Zenzele Ndebele speaks to Annabel Waitita, from the Institute of Environment, about women and water resources, during the 2and Africa Water Water Week, in Midrand, South Africa.
Jamillah Mwanjisi - Excutive Secretary of the African Civil Society on Water  (ANEW), Jamillah Mwanjisi tells Naseem Ackburally, that  corruption is still robbing millions of Africans access to water.
Lameck Masina speaks to women in rural parts of Malawi, who tell him how   tap water has improved their lives.
Zenzele Ndebele finds that generating income and maintaining an improved water source go hand in hand in Bulawayo.
Phiri residents won a water rights case against the government. Rejane Claasen investigates


The risks of climate change on food security in Southern Africa
By Belynda Petrie, CEO OneWorld group
Climate change threatens Africa's water and food security: the changes in climate will impact on social and political stability of most African countries. The countries in the Southern Africa region are predominantly agriculture based countries and this means that they heavily depend on the climate.
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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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