Drinking recycled water - a last resort ...

Interesting comments in a recent press article from South Africa:

Most African governments are still using a cheap "firefighting" approach to tackle the major water crises which threaten to overwhelm their people, a regional meeting of the continent's water bosses has heard.

Instead of planning strategically and spending the money that was really needed to give water security to the continent's 885 million people, many nations still focused on small-scale projects to plug the gaps, according to a draft report by African water ministers.

The ministers met in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, for three days last week to prepare a continental strategy document which will be presented to the World Water Forum in Mexico early next year.

The venue of the meeting in the arid nation of Namibia was perhaps appropriate, given that water resources are so scarce in Windhoek that its 250 000 residents have to drink recycled sewage water.

See - Much of Africa is dying of thirst.

Unfortunately, for some other nations, they do not have other water supply options ...