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Watershedding

Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:33

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South Africa runs dry as largest city hit by unprecedented water crisis

For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people.

Residents rich and poor have never seen a shortage of this severity. While hot weather has shrunk reservoirs, crumbling infrastructure after decades of neglect is also largely to blame. The public’s frustration is a danger sign for the ruling African National Congress, whose comfortable hold on power since the end of apartheid in the 1990s faces its most serious challenge in an election this year.

A country already famous for its hourslong electricity shortages is now adopting a term called “watershedding” — the practice of going without water, from the term loadshedding, or the practice of going without power.

The general view on this seems to be that incompetence and corruption are the underlying causes, another symptom of neglected South African infrastructure.

Taking a wider view, it does emphasise how damaging the slow grind of endemic incompetence can be. We in the UK may moan about having to drive around numerous potholes in our roads, but this is a symptom too. Endemic incompetence took root here some time ago and voting probably won’t change that.

The last major UK reservoir was built at Carsington in Derbyshire in 1991.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/03/watershedding.html

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