International community seeks to better tap into groundwater in 2022 - Efforts are ramping up to make invisible water resources more visible in policy as a solution to drought and climate change
Between 2016 and 2020, the IWMI said that the Limpopo River Basin was the driest it had been in 35 years.
“Groundwater is of strategic importance in the Limpopo River Basin. It is key to water security, climate resilience and prosperity – but only if continuously managed and protected and used wisely in conjunction with surface water supplies and other secondary resources, like properly treated wastewater,” said Karen Villholth, a principal researcher and project lead for IWMI in South Africa.
“We sometimes go for days without bathing as we try to preserve the little water we have for drinking and cooking. It is not healthy. If it does not rain in the coming weeks, I do not think we are going to survive this time around. This drought has gone for too long now,” she said.
“IWMI’s work has closed a significant gap in understanding the dynamics in transboundary aquifers in the region and in the Limpopo River Basin in particular. The studies undertaken in the Ramotswa and Tuli Karoo Aquifers shared by South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe assisted the member states to understand the system behaviour,” said Sérgio Bento Sitoe, the executive secretary at the Limpopo Watercourse Commission.
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