Dealing with South Africa's water woes

Dr Roland Nkwain Ngam, programme manager for climate justice and socio-ecological transformation at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, discusses the country's issues with water with eNCA's Jeremy Maggs

[hannesdejager]

But new houses (rdp) are built without gutters to help harvest rainwater, force contractors to install at least one gutter and downpipe into the municipal water system, its not a lot but it will start to counter the water shortage. By boosting the municipality water works the reliance on supply dams will be reduced

[friedfruit]

Please keep the comments open on your videos, allow us to build our social presence in a more open manner allowing us to unite for common justice without hatred or segregation of common wealth.

[lisademiljo]

Everything boils down to management and maintenance or more accurately mismanagement and non-maintenance of infrastructure, funds and skills resources such as competent staff and management. The buck stops with the people who are in charge. Stop blaming the populace and diverting focus from the corruption that SA citizens just see a small part of (which is absolutely shocking if the extent were to truly be exposed). We need people who have practical experience not book smarts to sort out this problem...and education on water management in communities.

[JacoBadenhorst]

Let me tell you a quick one, not a new one. There is a shortage of competent engineers in SA and the competent ones are not "allowed" to help sort the issue out due to BEE requirements. Now the UK and NZ are Picking the fruits of those competent engineers as most of them have emigrated.

[WNdaba]

Climate expert who failed to develop anything where he comes from.