Water is a complex topic worldwide, but particularly in a water-scarce and unequal country like South Africa. Our towns and cities are facing increasingly severe water shortages. While some of these problems relate to ageing infrastructure and municipalities that are unable to keep up with rapid urbanisation, most are due to the climate crisis, desertification and the collapse of the delicate ecological systems which make water and life possible (that we too often take for granted). Underpinning these problems and the solutions for them is our relationship with water, and understanding how our smallest interactions with this precious resource can ripple out into our collective demise or salvation.
For Water For Life – The water podcast is back for a second season, with a new episode landing every two weeks. Through conversations with scientists, hydrologists, biodiversity experts, philosophers, divers, architects and activists, hosts Gugulethu Mhlungu and Michelle Constant explore how water moves through the urban landscape. We follow the extraordinary course every single drop of water takes from the ocean to our bodies and then back again.
We travel to the cities to understand the impact of our concrete jungles on our water systems and look at the relationship between concrete and water in the urban landscape. We discuss the role of urban planning and dig into the complexities of engineering a city’s water.
And finally, we follow the journey of our water out to sea, and speak to activists and deep-sea divers fighting to defend the future of the pale blue dot and the life-giving water on it. As freedivers, Zandile Ndhlovu and Hanli Prinsloo have discovered a whole world just below the surface, with its own orchestra of sounds and rhythm of being. They both deeply believe that water can heal and freediving can transform people’s lives. Zandile is the founder of the Black Mermaid Foundation. And Hanli is the founder of the I Am Water Foundation.
Water is a vital economic enabler, and for Anthony, investing in new technologies and fixing up the water sector is paramount for job creation and moving towards a circular beneficiation economy.Through his obsessive search for the source of Johannesburg’s Jukskei River, journalist Sean Christie has journeyed below the city and dug up some fascinating, and at times squalid, insights into this river and how the city above it functions.
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