Perhaps the most well-known example is Cape Town’s “Day Zero.” After three years of persistent drought in the region, Cape Town officials in fall 2017 began a countdown to Day Zero – the ...

The documentary by Intl. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Rehad Desai shows a country's struggle to safeguard the supply of ...

Cape Town has been in the news a lot over the past year — but sadly, for all the wrong reasons. The city is battling an unprecedented water crisis, thanks to a rare drought that has resulted in ...

The City of Cape Town and its residents have achieved a new water usage milestone. As at Monday 12 March 2018, we used 511 ...

Farrant, now a professor of desiccation tolerance at the University of Cape Town, has been studying these unusual plants for over three decades. Along with several other researchers, she believes the ...

Massachusetts remains in a drought. While the drought status had improved back in January, the lack of precipitation in the ...

Johannesburg and Pretoria need to follow Cape Town’s lead and actively cut their water use. In Eastern Cape, a crippling drought coupled with inadequate contingency plans left thousands without ...

As drought brought severe water shortages to the people of Cape Town, it also inspired the use of some innovative water-saving products. A fully loaded dishwasher uses 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters ...

The question then becomes, can we find a way to produce more crops that have this ability to tolerate drought? My research focus began when I started working at the University of Cape Town (1994 ...

A delegation led by the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth and Tourism, Alderman James Vos, ...

Resurrection plants like Selaginella lepidophylla can survive months of drought (Credit ... of desiccation tolerance at the University of Cape Town, has been studying these unusual plants for ...