Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

Johannesburg faces a worsening water crisis due to aging infrastructure, leadership changes, and a lack of skilled professionals. Experts urge dedicated funding and warn of growing calls for water privatization.

Progress has been made since 2015 on a global scale in terms of increasing access to water of an acceptable quality and to sanitation services. But 2 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water.

Scientists provide context and background to the fire hazards in Cape Town, and suggest steps that can be taken to help mitigate runaway fires in the region.

Local governments must improve data collection and communication, engagement with experts and flexible adaptive decision making in order to strengthen urban water resilience and adapt better to climate risks. Effective water management also requires systems of mutual accountability between municipal, provincial and national government.

This paper aims to understand what happened in the Cape Town drought with a view to learning lessons that are translatable to other contexts. Due to the complex nature of the drought only certain aspects are investigated in depth in this paper namely the

After its severe 2015-2018 drought, Cape Town has released a draft strategy for water supply and management in the city and the wider region. But the strategy does not account for the uncertainty of future climate trends, economic activities, population growth, water demand and infrastructure investment needs. The draft also fails to mention the lessons learnt.

Even though Cape Town's drought persists, the city has announced a marginal reduction in consumption restrictions. In Cape Town, as in other cities, resilience challenges are opportunities for transformative growth. Since joining the 100RC Network, Cape Town has prioritized the long-term resilience of both its water system and urban ecosystem.

South Africa's government has confirmed that the national state of disaster that was declared three months ago has lapsed in terms of legislation. Assessments have shown that the drought is entering the resilience phase, which entails improving the identification, funding, coordination and management of resilience-building projects to reduce drought vulnerability.

A new report has found that Cape Town's massive water shortage, while exceptional, is characteristic of longer-term weather patterns. With climate change spurring more and more extreme weather events, severe shortages could become an increasingly regular occurrence in the future.

This report is divided into two parts. Part I provides an analysis of the drought situation in Western Cape, South Africa, as of January 2018. Part II presents an analysis of the medium to long-term spatial patterns and temporal behaviour of climate