Learning the hard way

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 completely full Gaborone Dam.

The water conservation methods we had all adopted, from recycling water within 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.