South Africans will be very thirsty in 5 years

If these cholera outbreaks and the algae blooms poisoning our water sources are linked to climate change - and it's logical to seem they could be - then contamination, drought and the toxicity could render many water resources diificult and dangerous to use.

clipped from www.sowetan.co.za Former water affairs director- general Mike Muller, who now works at the University of the Witwatersrand, warned last month that Gauteng would run out of water in 2013. He said the government was not taking the crisis seriously. Yesterday Hendricks said farmers along the banks of the Vaal River were “unlawfully using 180 million cubic metres” of water a year. “The major perpetrators are farmers,” she said. Methods on how to save water Employ more engineers to desalinate sea water Put in place initiatives to treat the high volumes of acid mine drainage seeping into water in the the ground Recycle water Harvest rain water by installing a water tank at every house