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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

More than half of rural people living in southern Africa do not have access to safe and reliable sanitation. That figure emerged during the development of Botswana’s new National Sanitation Roadmap 2020-2022, the country’s first ever sanitation-focused initiative.

• 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 Setswana saying “temo ke botshelo,” “farming is life,” affirms the centrality of subsistence agriculture for the lives and livelihoods of the people living in north-western Botswana.

• 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

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

USAID, through the U.S. Government’s Water for the World initiative, is doubling down on efforts that adapt to climate change and build resilience.

• 04/12/2022
• Ann Vaughan, Maura Barry Boyle

FEWS NET is the global gold standard for food insecurity early warning.

• 03/31/2022
• Kiersten Johnson, James P. Verdin

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

Since its inception in 2005 the SERVIR partnership between USAID and NASA has helped countries monitor environmental change and forecast extreme storms, floods, droughts, fires, red tides.

• 05/04/2015
• SERVIR Global