Water security

It calls for all sectors to work and make an effort to improve the environment that is most safe, particularly for women, young citizens and people who are most vulnerable.

And to finish today's news, St. Lucie has made a big investment in water security and has started a ninth project in our country that can replace the 20-inch gutters that you can buy from water without having to go out to Dam John Compton to facilitate treatment of water in Cicero.

Gouvernement Saint-Lucie, j'ajoute 22.8 millions de dollars mérités aux banques de développement carré de la CDB et aux gouvernements de France et des pays d'Italie.

Le ministère du développement physique et de l'utilité publique, honoré Kifson Charles.

And we do make these, I will call it necessary maintenance activities, let alone improvements.

We being myself, the project engineer, and a few others, former deputy director, strongly advocated for an addition to that project and that addition to that project has resulted in better water security for critical infrastructure such as our hospital

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critical just want to tell the story that there used to be a point in 13th street west that if we went and shut down any one of three valves they were without water now that's

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Um, but there's a warning now that water security could become the next major crisis.

How serious is, is this as a threat?

Water is, you know, it's one of the three utilities that are, or two utilities with electricity being the other, that are significant to mining operations, uh, as well as in the processing side.

We're going to have a conversation with Professor Mbangiseni Nepfumbada.

He is an expert on water security.

Now with him, we're going to be speaking about really the whole water ecosystem in South Africa and what can we do to have stronger water systems.

South Africa is a very, very naturally dry country and we need to bring a lot of our water from elsewhere.

And it takes this sophisticated architecture that we have, this sophisticated infrastructure, but that infrastructure is getting old and it's tough to maintain as well.

The cost of operating and maintaining that infrastructure is also rising.

So we need to ask questions about how sustainable this model is and whether as South Africa, we need to rethink the way that we approach water security.

And then if we zoom out and look at Africa as well, there's also that dimension to this conversation, right? Water doesn't follow political borders, and more than 60% of South Africa's river flow is linked to international boundaries as well.

We are running two separate planning horizons.

If water security is a public good, the real question is whether a toll road governance model can legally bind global shippers to fund intergenerational reservoir capacity before the next El Niño arrives.

Here's what I think nobody's said plainly yet.

The attribution finding cuts against our instincts in an uncomfortable way.

They reprice and route around it.

The canal's nineteen ninety-nine handover from US to Panamanian control was framed as decolonization, but the transfer treaty embedded a governance model that treats Gatun Lake as a single-purpose asset.

Article three seventeen of Panama's constitution declares the canal inalienable, yet the same text assigns its management to a public authority whose mandate is commercial viability, not water security.

That constitutional grammar turns every Neo-Panamax vessel into a permanent claim on a lake whose rainfall is governed by ENSO cycles no treaty can amend.