This pages highlights useful articles in the South African news media that gives reliable information about the water crisis, along with statistics of interest.
February 2018:
Presentation at UCT about the water crisis (12 February 2018)
Kirsty Carden, Tom Sanya, Samuel Fuhrimann, Neil Armitage and Bernelle Verster, amongst others, recently attended the African Centre for Cities (ACC) International Urbanism Conference. GroundUp wrote up the lively discussion that occurred around the panel about water smart cities, health and global change: https://www.groundup.org.za/article/african-centre-cities-day-1/
Interviews by Future Water associates:
Interview Date | FW member interviewed | Media |
20-Apr-18 | Bernelle Verster | 1001 SA Stories: Telling stories around water (podcast) |
13-Apr-18 | Bernelle Verster | SABC3 Expresso Show: Saving water with a dry toilet (youtube) |
14-Mar-18 | Dyllon Randall | BBC Radio: Urine and fertiliser |
13-Mar-18 | Neil Armitage | Groundup: How Cape Town more than halved its water usage |
12-Mar-18 | Kirsty Carden | PBS Newshour - tv interview |
26-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | US Public radio - interview |
22-Feb-18 | Dyllon Randall | Daily Maverick: The value of urine in a water sensitive future |
22-Feb-18 | Bernelle Verster | SAfm |
21-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Weekly international affairs program L’Effet Papillon, Canal Plus channel (France) - documentary |
21-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Danish newspaper |
21-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden, Bernelle Verster | Leadabroad - skype interview |
21-Feb-18 | Neil Armitage | Al jazeera English show Inside Story |
16-Feb-18 | Dyllon Randall | SABC3 Expresso: Urine recycled into fertilizers and bricks |
12-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | (EenVandaag) on the Dutch public tv network (NPO1) |
12-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Global Citizen - written responses to questions |
9-Feb-18 | Neil Armitage, Bernelle Verster | O Globo (Brazil) - newspaper article |
9-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | BBC World Service, The Inquiry - radio interview |
8-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | ABC Radio National, Melbourne - radio interview (Skype) |
8-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Catalan newspaper 'Ara' (ara.cat) - email responses for print article |
8-Feb-18 | Jess Fell | Ukrainian weekly “Novoye vremya” - email responses for print article |
7-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Liza Fabbian, Radio France Internationale - radio interview |
7-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | New Scientist, London - print |
7-Feb-18 | Kevin Winter | TRT World (Australia) - TV interview for The Newsmakers |
7-Feb-18 | Bernelle Verster | Business Insider SA |
6-Feb-18 | Neil Armitage | Tasneem Adams, Voice of the Cape breakfast show - radio interview |
6-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | The Norwegian Business Daily - telephone interview |
5-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Mario Borrego Walker, Radio Nacional de España - radio interview |
5-Feb-18 | Kevin Winter, Martine Visser | Monique Nazareth, Knowledge@Wharton - telephone interview |
5-Feb-18 | Neil Armitage | Marcia Klein, Bloomberg Environment - telephone interview |
5-Feb-18 | Bernelle Verster | Heart FM - radio interview |
3-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Yahoo News - online |
3-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | The Guardian (Guardian Cities) - video |
2-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Associated Press - video / print |
2-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden | Rosa Lyster, Pacific Standard |
1-Feb-18 | Kevin Winter | Interview for Nature (VO L 5 5 4 | N AT U R E | 1 3) |
1-Feb-18 | Neil Armitage | Michael Mehaffy, Future of Places Research Network, KTH University - telephone interview |
1-Feb-18 | Kirsty Carden / Neil Armitage | Sean O'Toole, GroundUp - print |
31-Jan-18 | Neil Armitage | CCFM Afternoon drive time show |
31-Jan-18 | Kirsty Carden | Midday report Cape Talk - radio |
31-Jan-18 | Kirsty Carden | SABC3 Afternoon Express - TV |
31-Jan-18 | Kirsty Carden | Gopolang Makou (gopolang@africacheck.org) - print |
30-Jan-18 | Neil Armitage | Marie Antelme, Coronation Fund Managers - presentation |
30-Jan-18 | Neil Armitage | SABC News, Lotus FM - radio interview |
30-Jan-18 | Dyllon Randall | CapeTalk: radio interview: UCT project turns recycled urine into fertiliser and bricks. Here's how |
30-Jan-18 | Kirsty Carden | Dorothea Gibson, Konrad Adenauer Foundation - print |
29-Jan-18 | Kirsty Carden | Roman Goergen, 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft', spektrum.de - print |
29-Jan-18 | Neil Armitage | Garreth Van Niekerk, Huffington Post |
26-Jan-18 | Bernelle Verster | Cape Talk John Maytham show |
23-Jan-18 | Bernelle Verster | Radio Sonder Grense |
28-Nov-17 | Neil Armitage | BBC |
24-Nov-17 | Neil Armitage | Dutch documentary - Awaiting Water (video) |
20-Sep-17 | John Okedi | Cape Talk John Maytham show |
2017:
The Future Water Institute statement on the current water crisis can be found here:
http://www.futurewater.uct.ac.za/future-water-statement-current-water-crisis-and-what-do-about-it
Stormwater harvesting can help South Africa manage its water shortages - Kirsty Carden on the Conversation.
Future Cape Town article on moving towards a more water secure future:
http://futurecapetown.com/2017/05/cape-towns-water-crisis-towards-a-more-water-secure-future/
Daily Maverick report back from the Water Indaba:
GroundUp series on the water crisis: