Stellenbosch University Water Institute: The Hope Project

To ensure a sustainable livelihood, we need water. A lack of adequate, safe and affordable water supplies has immediate and negative consequences, especially on vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly and the poor. It simply creates a plethora of health, environmental and socio-economic problems.

South Africa faces formidable and unprecedented challenges in meeting the rising demand for potable water. Our available supplies of fresh water are decreasing due to extended droughts, deteriorating water quality, more stringent health-based regulations, and competing demands from a variety of users. Moreover, increased pollution of groundwater and surface water from a wide variety of industrial, municipal and agricultural sources has seriously tainted water quality.



Source: Stellenbosch University Water Institute