As freshwater “Day Zero” looms for the climate change-stressed Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, home to 1.28 million people, officials face a difficult choice: risk failure of short-term groundwater supplies or seek long-term solutions.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s water crisis may have grabbed headlines around SA as Gift of the Givers drilled boreholes and residents prepared for day zero, but for the first time on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa finally came to see things for himself.