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By this time tomorrow, water-shedding will be under way in two provinces, for two very different reasons.

Researchers debunk the myth that water in Africa is scarce, blaming poor management of existing reserves instead

Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu says water has to be restricted in the Kouga Municipality and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.

<p>Nelson Mandela Bay is set to reach Day Zero in less than two weeks. The region has suffered a devastating drought for roughly six years.</p>

The Gamtoos Irrigation Board says the more funding IT gets, the more it can expand its efforts to remove alien invasive vegetation in the catchment of Nelson Mandela Bay’s parched western dams and thereby free up more water.

Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu says plans will be executed to avoid the taps running dry in the Nelson Mandela metro.

SA needs a more ‘activist’ state, Cyril Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week. A key idea here is the so called developmental state.

Nelson Mandela Bay is facing Day Zero with dams running dry.

The NGO is currently drilling boreholes in Gqebera following the recent visit by the Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu, who provided more details about government intervention to address the water crisis.

Reinforcing cycles of unsustainable human activity and intensifying climate effects are exacerbating the threats facing hundreds of millions of Africans.