Professor Anja du Plessis
says localised solutions are key to solving the country’s problems.
Water and Sanitation
Minister Pemmy Majodina is at the United Nations General Assembly in New York
this week.
The minister will take
part in panel discussions and outline a road map towards the upcoming AU Africa
Water Investment Summit and UN Water Conference in 2026.
Du Plessis says
sustainable development goals are good for global change, but countries need to
look at localised solutions as well.
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In terms of the
international goals, those are very wide and not always context-specific. If we
want to get South Africa more water secure we are going to have to look at
context-specific solutions.
“If you look in Joburg
there is a lot of sewage flowing straight into our rivers, so that is one of
the major issues that we have. You can have a river or a stream but if the
water quality isn’t suitable, you will still experience water scarcity.”
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