Charles Mangwiro interviews Sipho Nhambule of the Komati Basin Water Authority on the removal of families to build the Maguga Dam in Swaziland.

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Some of the key adversities as a result of climate change are either floods or droughts, both of which require great effort in terms of mitigation.

It is time to move from rhetoric to action to address the critical climate change challenges facing SADC.

Some 150 officials, tasked with looking after SADCs water, are gathering in Swaziland to discuss the financing of water infrastructure in the region.

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The Fifth Water Dialogue is focusing on climate finance – five months ahead of the climate conference in South Africa.

OKACOM executive secretary Eben Chonguiça says joint fact-finding has helped Angola, Botswana and Namibia to build a basis of trust so that balanced choices over development in the Okavango River basin can proceed.

 

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Climate change could drive women’s empowerment, says Stephanie Midgley.

 

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Among the more than a hundred people present at the Multi-Stakeholder Water Dialogue, there was a curious absence: ordinary citizens, such as the smallholder farmers whose lives and livelihoods participants heard will be most immediately affected by climate change were nowhere to be seen.

 

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Floods are usually viewed as a threat, but a cyclical increase in the Okavango’s flooding has increased biodiversity and tourism in the area.

Energy expert Catherine Fedorsky says that since so much energy in the region is generated by a limited resource – water – and it is all the more important that countries find a fair way of sharing it.