ELI BELOTSERKOVSKY: How Israel’s water management scheme can help SA
In Israel, each home or business has to install a meter to indicate how much water is used and how much they should pay for it
One of the most urgent problems humanity has to deal with is securing supplies of fresh drinking water for the world’s population. Globally, 2-billion people, a quarter of the total population, do not have access to safe drinking water and 3.6-billion do not have access to proper sanitation facilities.
SA suffers from water shortages and faces additional challenges with regard to water management. It is ranked the 40th driest country in the world, with fresh water resources under immense pressure. Floods in KwaZulu-Natal destroyed essential water infrastructure in April last year, and as a result of a heatwave water cuts were introduced in Gauteng, which caused sanitation issues. There were also water restrictions in the Eastern Cape as a result of drought...
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