Gauteng water shortages: A perfect storm ‘turning into a hurricane’ - Another says the outages are a wake-up call for how water is managed in the country’s economic hub
“You have this thing of delayed action or no action at all, and that has obviously contributed to the collapse of infrastructure in certain regions of Johannesburg, but you also have issues of poor planning because the city
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