Experts call for national war room to tackle mounting water issues

Water expert and environmental adviser Dr Anthony Turton and infrastructure development company Accentuate CEO Fred Platt have proposed that a national war room be established to begin implementing strategic steps that are required to deal with South Africa’s mounting water scarcity challenges. Both stressed the value of water as an economic enabler and said that, without water, civilisations diminish and eventually disappear; likening such a situation to that which happened to the ancient civilisation of the Mayans of northern central America.