#WorldWaterDay: 10 facts – some surprising – about Africa’s waterA boy drinks water at Chesited Borehole in Tiaty, Baringo County on January 30, 2019. The World Water Day is celebrated on March 22. In 2017, South Africa’s City of Cape Town municipality battled to bring down water use during a protracted drought. Kenya’s Murang’a county is home to the all-important Thika Dam , also known as Ndakaini dam, which supplies 83% of the water used in the capital Nairobi. One of these is a warning shared widely on social media that someone is injecting poison into water bottles in South Africa.

Source: Standard Digital March 22, 2019 10:29 UTC