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The infestation of water hyacinth in the river system suffocates indigenous aquatic life because it competes for oxygen, mushrooms, ends up blocking and ultimately causes pollution in stagnant water. This presents a major challenge for communities, biodiversity and ecosystems that utilize the waters of the Limpopo.

• 06/20/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

USAID’s Resilient Waters Program hosted a community-based celebration to commemorate World Environment Day in partnership with the Kwalata Community Development Initiative at Dinokeng Game Reserve in Hammanskraal, South Africa.

• 06/20/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The USAID Resilient Waters Program supported Bupe Banda, the young, female, head of Zambia’s National Community Resources Board, to attend the World Youth Wildlife Summit held in South Africa on September 21st -24th, 2019.

• 06/20/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

USAID’s Resilient Waters Program and the Southern African Development Community’s Ground Water Institute (SADC-GMI) have been collaborating to enhance LIMCOM’s capacity to integrate groundwater initiatives into their transboundary management efforts.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The Matobo Hills is part of the upper Umzigwane in Zimbabwe, which is a key high-altitude catchment area in the Limpopo river basin. High altitude catchment areas are the main sources of water for a river basin, producing 100 times more water than lower lying areas, and also major storehouses of biodiversity.

• 06/09/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on a five-year project to address water challenges facing communities in the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin.

• 06/08/2023
• USAID Resilient Waters

Integrating water supply, sanitation, and hygiene development efforts with work in livelihoods, watershed management, and biodiversity conservation results in improved outcomes for each sector. Brian App shares key lessons from projects in southern Africa.

• 06/05/2023
• Brian App

COP27, which concludes in Egypt today, provides an important moment to reflect on the action that USAID has taken over the past year to advance its COP26 commitment, which includes supporting the mobilization of $1 billion in climate-resilient water and sanitation services by 2030.

• 11/18/2022
• Ella Lazarte, Natalie R. Gill

USAID launched the five-year, $32 million Resilient Waters Program in 2018 to improve transboundary natural resources management and increase the water security and resilience of communities and ecosystems

• 06/01/2022
• Wendy Putnam

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of water and sanitation in safeguarding human security. Through its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) program, USAID has been helping expand access to finance for water service providers (WSPs).

• 02/11/2022
• Farah Siddique

USAID’s Resilient Waters Program presented alongside the Global Analysis and Assessment for Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS) team, at the 2019 SIWI World Water Week, held in Stockholm.

• 08/02/2019
• USAID Resilient Waters

USAID’s Resilient Waters Program supported the South Africa Department of Water, Sanitation and Human Settlements’ river clean up event to raise awareness about the importance of healthy rivers.

• 07/02/2019
• USAID Resilient Waters

One of South Africa’s largest and most well-known cities, Cape Town, has dominated headlines since the beginning of the year as the dreaded Day Zero approaches: the day when the city’s reservoirs go below a critical threshold and the city will turn off municipal water supply to many homes and businesses. 

• 02/16/2018
• Jeremy Gorelick