Water and energy join hands to avert future crisis

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Water conservation The MoU is aimed at facilitating broader cooperation on issues relating to efficient water use at Eskom’s power generation plants. “While the country is not experiencing a water crisis at present, there is no denying that South Africa is water scarce, and we cannot afford to rest on our laurels and think that because we have good infrastructure and recently had good rainfall that there is a guarantee of long-term water security. We cannot afford to waste water, we cannot allow people to take more than their allocation, and we cannot allow people to use water unlawfully,” Hendricks said. “Our colleagues at Eskom will only be too aware that the timely implementation of effective and comprehensive energy demand management would have dramatically lessened the Water & energy join hands to avert future crisis Lessons learnt from the present electricity crisis should be applied to ensure similar deficiencies are not experienced in the water sector, said Minister of Water Affairs & Forestry Lindiwe Hendricks.

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