The cracked mud in empty dams on Adrian Quinn's Cavendish farm shows the battle farmers face against the drought.

The drought is not having an impact on the health of livestock, with farmers using feed supplements. Dams have dried up and the paddocks of Yvette McKenzie's New South Wales Riverina sheep farm ...

Swathes of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia are in the grip of drought as they ... is being trucked in to fill empty rainwater tanks and dams. The story playing out ...

Crumbling infrastructure in many of South Africa’s major cities means that even when the dams are full ... Africa has experienced several severe drought and flood events in the past 10 years.

Drought is a recurring issue in South Africa, affecting agriculture ... Improving water infrastructure ensures efficient management of resources. Building dams and reservoirs can store water during ...

Majodina added there were limits to which South Africa could keep building dams to address its water ... municipalities were not caused by drought. “They are caused by rapid growth in the ...

A father of three, Mudzviti and his family are among the more than 27 million people across southern Africa afflicted by a historic drought ... sources — streams, dams and waterways ...

South Africa is a water scarce country ... This can result in reservoirs running empty. Rand Water has been conducting system upgrades across the province and Phase 2 of the Lesotho Highlands ...

South Africa has engineered effective systems to reduce and prevent water insecurity. Systems of dams and inter-basin ... were to experience a day-zero type drought” — but the city is ...

Rivers and dams have ... the effects of drought in May. So far, only a tiny fraction has been received. “If you go anywhere in southern Africa, family granaries are empty, and maize, which ...