Okavango sabotage - Showdown in the Delta
Friday, September 23, 2016
![The Angolan highlands are the source of the Okavango delta PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES](https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://www.mmegi.bw/uploads/imported_images/2016/september/23/phpEVDIDD.jpg&w=400&q=72&f=jpg&t=1)
The Angolan highlands are the source of the Okavango delta PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
The Okavango River basin, stretching from the Angolan highlands through Namibia and on to Botswana is facing an unprecedented disaster, with some environmental analysts already warning that the Okavango Delta is dying.
Reports from the tourism heartland indicate that Angola, where the rivers feeding the Delta originate, is possibly diverting waters for mega-scale agricultural projects, as citizens there have complained that their nation “simply watches” rivers flow by to create millions of pula for Botswana via the Delta tourists.
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