Water future is in your hands

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Government and the agency it mandated to purvey water, the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), will by necessity take the harshest criticism around the growing supply crisis in the southeast.

Ever since the corporation’s establishment 45 years ago, Batswana have increased their reliance on the water grid and in the absence of restrictions on usage, have developed wasteful and careless attitudes for a resource the country is perennially in need of.

Last month, Bokaa Dam also gave up the ghost and on October 1, according to an article elsewhere in this edition, South Africa could cut Greater Gaborone off from Molatedi Dam supplies.

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Water future is in your hands

Government and the agency it mandated to purvey water, the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), will by necessity take the harshest criticism around the growing supply crisis in the southeast.

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