Water crisis: Are bigger dams the answer?

Delegates at the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference currently underway at the University of Cape Town. Photo: Andy Mkosi</span>Why is Cape Town experiencing a water crisis? How does one answer that without ignoring history and simplifying the facts? Should frightened citizens of Cape Town, many now scrambling to become water literate, embrace the call to 'decolonise narratives' around water governance in order to rescue their city? Such questions energised debates on the first day of an international conference on urban research at the University of Cape Town.
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