{"id":4374,"date":"2019-08-06T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"facing-dry-times-rural-south-africans-rethink-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/06\/facing-dry-times-rural-south-africans-rethink-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Dry Times, Rural South Africans Rethink Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ByKim Harrisberg and Claudio Accheri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the world,\nstronger El Nino weather patterns and climate change are bringing harsher and\nmore frequent droughts &#8211; and already-dry southern Africa has been particularly\nhard hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water shortages have\nkilled crops, forced farmers to migrate to look for work, hobbled the\nhydropower dams much of the region depends on for electricity, and threatened\nthe region&#8217;s rich wildlife as water-holes disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many rural\nvillages, limited access to water has resulted in near-daily negotiations about\nhow the little available should be shared and used, and how more might be\nacquired.\n\nIn the drought-parched\nvillage of Vuna, talks have led to water being trucked in, bath-water being\nshared &#8211; and plenty of thirsty animals\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/packages.trust.org\/running-dry-south-africa\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByKim Harrisberg and Claudio Accheri Around the world, stronger El Nino weather patterns and climate change are bringing harsher and more frequent droughts &#8211; and already-dry southern Africa has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}