Botswana wins water race, loses on sanitation-PHK

Speaking at the 4th annual water conference, the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego 'PHK' Kedikilwe, revealed that the problem of pollution is made worse by the growth in population and lack of harmonisation of policies between water management and pollution.

"While we discussed the need to optimise water supplies by harnessing wastewater and treating it to drinking water quality standards for portable use, we somehow fell short of water and sanitation as a single entity that requires integration for the betterment of its management," Kedikilwe said at the official opening of the conference at GICC.