AGRICULTURE NEWS - While South Africa is currently in a “very serious” situation with regard to water shortages, there is no need for the public to panic “at this stage”.
This was according to the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, who was speaking during a media briefing held in Johannesburg on Monday.
Sisulu said the combination of heatwaves that had continued to intermittently grip the country this spring and summer so far, a widespread shortage of sufficient rainfall, and expectations that South Africa could only expect “decent” rainfall to start in December at the earliest, meant that “we are in for a long, dry season”.
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