A week ago, a dam in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay was decommissioned as levels dropped too low to extract any actual water. Another is just days away from emptying out. Now much of the city ...

There’s an urgent need to put water higher on South Africa’s agenda. ... but the dams are full: what’s gone wrong ... There were also restrictions during the drought in 2015-2017.

Zambia has announced that it will import electricity from neighbouring South Africa and Zimbabwe... This as drought slashes hydropower output, leading to blackouts of up to 16 hours a day ...

Because many reservoirs are powered by electric pumps, high levels of scheduled power outages, or “load shedding” as it’s known in South Africa, have also cause low water levels at reservoirs.

Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst hunger crisis in decades ...

Cape Town faced a drought from 2016 to 2018 when the city came within 90 days of running out of water. South Africa: Groundwater - Key to Mitigating the Effects of The Climate Crisis # ...

In southern Africa, an estimated 9 million people, half of them children, need help in Malawi.More than 6 million in Zambia, 3 million of them children, are impacted by the drought, UNICEF said.

South Africa: A Tale of Two Dams - - Grasslands Restoration Is As Important As Engineering Solutions to Ensure SA's Future Water Security. 4 May 2025. Daily Maverick (Johannesburg) ...

South Africa, and particularly Johannesburg, is not water-scarce. This could change quite rapidly if “we were to experience a day-zero type drought” — but the city is “currently very water ...