- Implement the right to water and sanitation and ensure access to safe drinking water and sanitation in emergency situations, build resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change and natural disasters,
- Ensure universal access to water (in rural areas),
- Strengthen cooperation on multi-purpose infrastructure, including hydropower, strengthen North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation in data and information-sharing and capacity-building,
- Mobilizing additional financial resources and promoting innovative financing, increasing water efficiency and sustainable management through science, technology, innovation and education.
Climate change
Department of Water and Sanitation
Gov/Local Authority
NGOs
other
South Africa is experiencing water quantity and quality issues due to environmental and socio-economic changes (Parks et al., 2019). Greater pressure on water resources in the event of climate change impacts could exacerbate existing problems and create new ones (New, 2018). Water resources, infrastructure, the health sector, food security, as well as ecosystem services and biodiversity are extremely threatened by climate change. As a result, it contributes to changing the number and distribution of people affected by water scarcity. Together with the high levels of inequality and poverty in South Africa, this creates crucial challenges for national development (Ziervogel et al., 2014)
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Financing
Technique
Visibility / promotion
Apheles Mgabisa
0763205231 / mgabisaa@dws.gov.za
