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The bad drought ever.

#climatechange #drought
SDG 6 SDG 13

Cape Town's drought and water shortage has officially escalated to disaster levels. ... Its main strategy now is to severely restrict water use through rationing.

Rainfall data visualisations show that 2017 was one of the driest years in recent decades. But the region's predicament wasn't caused by the low 2017 rainfall, (NOAA, 2017).

In Tanzania there have been media reports of failed harvests and livestock deaths. In response, a senior government official in the northern Manyara region released emergency food stocks onto the market. That was the start of country's food emergency, (FAO, 2018).

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