{"id":188825,"date":"2025-01-17T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-giant-freshwater-aquifer-in-southern-africa-is-under-threat-from-mining\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:13:06","slug":"southern-africa-giant-freshwater-aquifer-in-southern-africa-is-under-threat-from-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-giant-freshwater-aquifer-in-southern-africa-is-under-threat-from-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Giant Freshwater Aquifer in Southern Africa Is Under Threat From Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"113\">A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un-igrac.org\/case-study\/stampriet-aquifer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System<\/a>, stretches for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freewat.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/Using%20advanced%20modeling%20tools%20for%20sound%20Stampriet.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">87,000km\u00b2 across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana<\/a>. It supplies 50,000 people in several towns with water <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un-igrac.org\/case-study\/stampriet-aquifer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pure enough to drink<\/a>, and is their only source of water. But the Namibian government has awarded <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/portals.landfolio.com\/namibia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">uranium prospecting licences<\/a> to several mining companies across the aquifer system. Other mining companies already have the right to prospect for rare earth metals in the aquifer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160174.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km\u00b2 across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. It supplies 50,000 people in several towns with water pure enough to drink, and is their only source of water. But the Namibian government has awarded uranium prospecting licences to several mining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,50415,2462,33056,10414,6477,257,254,7153,6791],"class_list":["post-188825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aquifer","tag-botswana-news","tag-freshwater","tag-giant","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-threat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}