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Cleaning up industry's water worries | Feature


By Angeli Mehta2021-05-04T08:58:00+01:00
With clean water supplies increasingly scarce, Angeli Mehta looks at what industry is doing to reduce its demands
Fresh water is in parlous state. Droughts in South Africa and in Europe in 2018 were a wake-up call to industry. In Cape Town, the city came close to ‘day zero’ with the prospect of taps running dry. ‘We knew it was going to happen, but
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fact that it came very quickly and dramatically was unexpected,’ says Kevin Winter, at the Future Water Institute at the University of Cape Town. ‘It caused the public to talk about water like they’ve never done before.’ In Europe, major navigation routes on the Rhine were almost impassable, ships carrying chemicals ran aground and water extraction for cooling was restricted. BASF, Evonik, Solvay and Shell Chemical all had to cut production, and the Germany economy took a hit. ....

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The socio-economic impact of the shortfall in water infrastructure and supply is already severe, and most likely to increase as exacerbated by the effects of climate change. The government has to move beyond the approach of conscientising water users to value water, and disciplining them by imposing above inflation water tariffs which continue to exclude the poor from accessing this most basic need.
Join us as for an online discussion with Ms Amber Abrams, Research Fellow at the Future Water Institute – University of Cape Town. As we discuss some of South Africa’s underlying water infrastructure  and local municipality supply challenges ....

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