Alternatives To Coal-fired Electricity Exist But There Are No Alternatives For Water

The last quarter of 2015 saw five out of the nine provinces — KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the North West, including the breadbasket of the country, the Free State — declared as water disaster areas and by extension disaster areas for agriculture. Somehow, the linkages between how the intensive water use for coal-fired electricity exacerbating water scarcity and water poverty, while also contributing to catastrophic climate change (which in turn will increase water insecurity), are not being made.
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