An annual United Nations event, World Environment Day on 5 June promotes global environmental awareness.
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Schroder notes that the metros in KwaZulu-Natal are over-abstracting their resources by about 20% as a result. “Our water losses are increasing, and we have more and more water being extracted from the resource that is not necessarily reaching the end users.” AECOM participates in consortia and partnerships with other consultants to support the Department of Water and Sanitation in developing and implementing drought operating rules. This includes work in the KwaZulu-Natal metropolitan area and the Crocodile Catchment Area over the past three years.
Schroder warns that South Africa is stressing its catchment areas by adding more and more water users. “Our development of associated water resources is lagging. In many instances, we are actually over-abstracting our systems a bit. That makes us more vulnerable to smaller droughts. The one good thing is that although climate change is an issue, many parts of the country are projected to actually be getting slightly wetter on average.
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