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Water Experts have been urged to adopt a different approach in water resources development and management if they are to increase effective stakeholder participation at community level.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) recently made history when three of its members, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe launched one of the world’s biggest game parks, the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP).
THE LONG-AWAITED policy organ of the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM), the Council of Ministers, was constituted this year, thus completing all levels of the structure and enabling the full operations of the permanent commission in 2014.
Faced with a crippling shortage of electricity, Zambezi basin riparian states are making efforts to increase power generation and distribution, and prevent total darkness.
The Africa Water Task Force is to embark on a Millennium Development Goals (MDG) road show later this year in Southern Africa to encourage governments and communities seeking to improve water supplies to “make it happen”
WATER, ENERGY and Food Security are closely interlinked and river basin organisations have an important role in facilitating an integrated approach to water resources management that supports development in the other sectors.