With its busiest tourism season just a month away, water-scarce Port Alfred’s plight just got a little more desperate this week after the Ndlambe municipality failed in its high court bid to force a contractor to resume water production at its vital desalination plant Quality Filtration Systems in September stopped all work on the “emergency” reverse osmosis system which has been billed as an important part of the solution to crippling water shortages in the popular seaside hamlet.
Farming in the Karoo can be challenging, thanks to the heat, the drought and the large expanses of farmland where most farmers rear small stock for wool or meat.
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