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While the future is difficult to predict, available freshwater resources will certainly decrease in the coming years due to the increasing demand of a growing world population.

They’re by no means a healthy option, but millions of people in South Africa enjoy them anyway, with lashings of salt, vinegar and sometimes tomato sauce.

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Agriculture, which accounts for 70 percent of water withdrawals worldwide, plays a major role in water pollution. Farms discharge large quantities of agrochemicals, organic matter, drug residues, sediments and saline drainage into water bodies. 

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Progress has been made since 2015 on a global scale in terms of increasing access to water of an acceptable quality and to sanitation services.

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Intense rolling blackouts are currently dominating headlines in South Africa. But water stress is another silent problem that is becoming a major crisis — and we’re currently seeing the effects of this in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape.

Groundwater has often been seen as the underground resource that never runs out. This “out of sight out of mind” attitude means wells and boreholes are indiscriminately sunk and that groundwater is abused by the public and even by governments. This is exacerbated in times of drought and even more pronounced in arid areas.