|
On the face of it, Earth has plenty of the stuff. We live on a water world: about three quarters of the earth’s surface is submerged. And, give or take a few H2O molecules, there’s the same amount circulating through the water cycle now as there has been for thousands of years. So why is there [...] Today, the United Nations declared Johannesburg – The water treatment plant at the Grootvlei mine near Springs will flood with acid mine water in five days, closing down operations, if action is not taken, the water affairs department said on Tuesday. “The plant is only pumping 40 megalitres of acid mine water a day, but it needs to pump 108 megalitres [...] Because of diamond finds in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Bushmen were evicted from the land they lived on. As if it wasn’t enought that their homes were ruined, their schools and health care fascilities were closed their water supply was destroyed. They used a borehole and a tanker carried water to communities [...] A report released in early October 2009 by the Water Research Commission of South Africa found that South Africa has 4% less water than 20 years ago. Rand Water is predicting that demand for water in South Africa will outstrip supply by 2025. It also believes that Gauteng is potentially facing a water shortage as early [...] Pietermaritzburg – Rhino poachers have struck again – this time close to the city limits. An eight-year-old white rhino bull was shot dead with an AK47 rifle at Karkloof Spa at Otto’s Bluff on Friday night. Farm manager at the reserve there, Brendan Gevers, told The Witness that the bull was shot in the head and that [...] See our intial story about Vuma’s butchered mothere here Ten-year-old Sello Kolensie’s speech to his Grade 3 class, depicting a mock conversation between a rhino and her calf at the Krugersdorp Game Reserve not long before poachers kill her, almost reduced them to tears. “My teacher told me I almost made her cry and everyone else in [...] |
|
|
|
Copyright © 2012 Waterresq.co.za - All Rights Reserved |
||
Follow Us!