As the debate of water supply shortage in Botswana ranges on, and there is more and more need to find not only a temporary solution but also a long term and permanent one, mind I remind all and sundry that necessity is the mother of all inventions. Faced with such a persistent challenge, it is time we set ourselves a collective task of finding a solution rather than point fingers at each other. No singular man can come up with solutions to all life’s challenges. We have to assist each other, that’s the very reason God created so many of us. I am kindly putting down my commonsense suggestions below, with the hope that I am not buying a mirror for the blind man.
I have said above commonsense suggestions because we don’t need rocket scientists to prescribe the solution to us. We do not even need to waste money on foreign experts at all, the solution lies amongst us. Of particular importance is that we are all agreed as a nation that Botswana is a dry country, but the Almighty gave us an abundant natural resource of many great rivers, dongas and valleys. And these each and every rainy season collect massive amounts of water and take it all down the way to the great Indian Ocean, where again here the water is stored safely for us for the next rainy season. This is a natural waste, because every time it rains we don’t bother to collect enough water until it is carried back to the Indian ocean. It should be commonsense to all by now that it takes on average a nine month cycle for us to receive rain annually.
