Enviro Champ – Ayanda Lipheyana
February 26, 2015 March 7, 2015 | penzmalinga
Ayanda says: “The biggest environment problem that we are facing is the lack of freely available drinking water in the country. Millennium Development Goal no.7 states that we must ensure environmental sustainability and further, Target 7C states that by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation will be halved. To date nothing has changed much, the percentage of people without access to clean water has increased while South Africa as a whole does not have abundant water resources, and much of the water is not clean.
A Drought called Somiso
February 10, 2015 February 10, 2015 | penzmalinga
Izimvula ezike zasehlela ziyafana nse nokuthela amanzi emhlane wedada, lapho ngisho into engathi shu. Sesingene sathi shiqi kulesi somiso which threathens to get harsher as the days go by.
Ezolimo claim to have lost over 400 million rands worth of produce because of the lack of rainfall, the persistant heat, while freak hail storms are occurring more frequently, damaging crops as well. Sithi sise lapho, isabelo zimali esangamele ukulwa nama natural disasters njengaso lesomiso nje, uhulumeni ukhethe ukongeza eyabesikhwama somnyango weza manzi kanye nokukhucululwa kwendle.
Ngakolunye uhlangothi, osolwazi bacabangela ekutheni kuzogcina sekuba ne “load shedding” khona la nakompompi, uma ngabe isimo sezulu singaqinisi ngokuthi cabacaba kangono ngemvula. Njengoba nehlobo seliya ngokuphela, okuyisona sikhathi esijwayele ukuba ne highest rainfall, kubonakala izimvula ezilindelwe ekupheleni kwa February zingezukwenza mehluko otheni.
Sikhuluma nje amadamu angaphansi kwe Mooi-uMngeni system agcwele ngama percent afika kumashumi ayisishagalombili on avarage. Uma ngabe uhulumeni kanye nomphakathi in general awukaqali ukuzilungiselela lesi simo, singazithola sikhungathwe izinkinga zokungabi nayo iproduce eyanele.