First it was electricity. Now it is water. It seems the woes of landlocked Botswana are never-ending. The country, which has faced serious power outages in recent years, now has a water crisis on its hands. While the power issue has been addressed to some extent with the building of a new power plant, FTW has been told there is only enough water left in the Gaborone Dam for another month or so. While the water situation in the capital of Gaborone itself has been dire for some time – with water restrictions in place – the rest of the country is facing its own crisis. “Dams across the country are running dry and belowaverage rainfall in recent years has not helped the situation much,” an FTW source said. While power cuts used to be a weekly phenomenon in Botswana, areas such as Gaborone have not had any power failures since April this year.
