Raise groundwater profile - SADC official
GABORONE - SADC countries have been called upon to raise the profile of groundwater, as 60 per cent of the region's population especially those living in rural areas depend on it.
Speaking during a two-day SADC conference on groundwater in Gaborone, SADC director of infrastructure and services, Mr Remigious Makumbe, called for improvement in management of groundwater, saying while the region was on the right track, more still needed to be done.
The SADC conference in Integrated Water Resources Management Initiative was organised by SADC, the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) and the Deutsche fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ).
It discussed the groundwater-related issues in the SADC
region and strategised on how to replicate the regional groundwater
management initiative into the continent-wide processes on groundwater
utilisation and management. Mr Makumbe said groundwater was also faced
with the challenge emanating from climate change which was predicted to
increase the variability of rainfall, flow of rivers and levels of
lakes, reducing their reliability as sources of
freshwater.
Above excerpt from: http://www.sadc-groundwater.org/news_description.php?id2=12
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