Every drop counts

However, these lessons are easy to forget, minimise or even euphemise in hindsight, especially as we become collectively blinded by the shimmering waters at the now 90% full Gaborone Dam. The water conservation methods we had all adopted, from recycling water within our homes to the better use of supplies, could become abandoned. The urgency of policy reforms to change the building code and force developers to install gutters and other rain collection systems could slow down.

Human nature being what it is, the moment the adrenaline associated with the ‘fight/flight’ response to a crisis abates, may return to normal even if that behaviour causes crisis.