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South Africa is a water stressed country, faced with an increasing need to safeguard the available water resources and channels. Water security has become a major issue on the International agenda, therefore, water security in relation to water resources and their management in Southern Africa should be well understood. Groundwater plays a major role in addressing the water demands. It is with this regard that the Ground Water Division themed their 16th Ground Water Division Conference as “Demand, Availability and Surety” within the broader theme of Groundwater “The Sustainability Issue”.

An exciting addition is the Groudwater PUBLIC OPEN SESSION scheduled for Day 2 as a Side-event of the Conference.The Ground Water Division of South Africa and its Eastern Cape Branch invite businesses and private groundwater users to join us in discussing and addressing all your groundwater related issues.

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A special issue of the The Journal of African Earth Sciences titled "Groundwater: Data, Disaster and Dependency" has been approved!

Source water supply planning and development must be diversified to mitigate against water scarcity — a serious threat to South Africa’s water security. I bet that almost all policy and decision-makers have a direct or indirect investment portfolio. Most investment portfolios are diversified across a variety of stocks and bonds to minimise risk, to preserve capital and generate returns.