What can we learn from Karoo farmers about coping with drought?

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Indigenous knowledge systems The 2009 to 2011 drought in the Central Karoo and Southern Cape caused such severe water shortages in some towns that emergency measures had to be implemented. More than 70 new boreholes were drilled, four desalination plants constructed, and innovative solutions for water reclamation put into effect (see the Water Wheel, May/June 2015). In Beaufort West, water ‘loadshedding’ was introduced as a rationing measure, at least five million litres of tanker water were trucked in, and a nationally broadcast publicity campaign brought donations of bottled water pouring in.

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