Category WaterSecurity

Solar panels and a rocket stove cover two of the three legs of household independence in South Africa. Power and cooking. The third leg, which most households still leave entirely to a municipal pipeline, is water. And in a year where Rand Water has pushed through a 15.3% tariff increase and municipalities across the country are passing the cost through to ratepayers, leaving that pipeline as your only source is starting to look both expensive and risky. Rainwater harvesting is not a fringe hippie project. Done correctly, it is a pragmatic infrastructure decision with a calculable payback period, and most of South Africa's climate is far better suited to it than people assume.