Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa is under threat from mining

By Surina Esterhuyse, Senior Lecturer Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
Anton Lukas, Groundwater modeller and postdoctoral researcher, University of the Free State

A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. It supplies 50,000 people in several towns with water pure enough to drink, and is their only source of water. But the Namibian government has awarded uranium…

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