Water Storages Dwindle Despite Heavy Rains
Monday, January 25, 2010
The situation is worrisome as Gaborone Dam can barely drought-proof the Greater Gaborone area for 19 months - without more water flowing into it.
The Greater Gaborone area includes Gaborone City, Lobatse, Mogoditshane cluster (Mogoditshane, Ledumadumane, Metsimotlhabe, Mmopane, Gabane) Ramotswa and its satellite villages and Mochudi.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...