Our water supplies dependent on skills of foreign engineers
07 March 2016 - 02:30
South Africa's drinking water is under threat not only from the drought but from a "chronic" shortage of engineers in municipalities. The Municipal Benchmarking Initiative report of 2015, compiled by the SA Local Government Association and the Water Research Commission, says that this country has not even a tenth of the number of water engineers needed to run municipal water networks adequately.
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