Egypt’s aquaculture industry (fish farming) is the largest in Africa, and according to FAO (2015), it accounted for about 79% of the country’s fish needs with a market value of about US$2.2 billion in 2015.
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The Department of Water and Sanitation in the Northern Cape has in the past weeks issued Flood Alert Warnings to communities along with the Vaal and Orange River systems.
Spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation, Sputnik Ratau, says this is as a result of water levels continuing to increase due to heavy rainfall. Some parts of the Northern Cape has in the past two weeks received rainfall of between 50-100mm, according to the SA Weather Services, resulting in localised flooding in some areas.
Previous dry islands and riverbeds were also significantly recharged and refilled due to rain, adds Ratau.
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The Keetmanshoop municipality has warned locals to use water sparingly because NamWater’s terminal reservoir, which supplies the town with potable water, yesterday stood at 30%, with an outflow of 240 cubic metres of water per hour.
The municipality’s public relations officer, Dawn Kruger, in a statement issued yesterday, said the supply from the purification plant to the reservoir is limited due to high turbidity of water caused by severe floods and the amount of mud deposited onto the Naute Dam wall.
“We are currently trying to get rid of the sludge around the inlet pipes at the dam wall,” she said.