{"id":231455,"date":"2026-04-26T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-prioritises-pandamatenga-water-supply\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:37:58","slug":"botswana-govt-prioritises-pandamatenga-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-prioritises-pandamatenga-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Govt Prioritises Pandamatenga Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gaborone \u2014 Government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Pandamatenga into a leading agricultural hub through strategic investments in water and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Chobe-Zambezi Water Transfer Scheme has been identified as a key driver of economic growth in the Chobe Region, supported by the Water Utilities Corporation&#8217;s (WUC) ongoing investment in large-scale water infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">Speaking at a recent business meeting in Kasane, WUC Business Development Manager, Kagiso&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Gaborone \u2014 Government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Pandamatenga into a leading agricultural hub through strategic investments in water and energy infrastructure. The Chobe-Zambezi Water Transfer Scheme has been identified as a key driver of economic growth in the Chobe Region, supported by the Water Utilities Corporation&#8217;s (WUC) ongoing investment in large-scale water infrastructure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,4357,257,53501,10062,254,5236,6722],"class_list":["post-231455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-pandamatenga","tag-prioritises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/231455","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=231455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}