{"id":236879,"date":"2026-06-20T05:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lesabo-project-to-address-water-scarcity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T05:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:52:03","slug":"botswana-lesabo-project-to-address-water-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lesabo-project-to-address-water-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Lesabo Project to Address Water Scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gaborone \u2014 The successful implementation of the proposed Lesotho-South Africa-Botswana (LESABO) water transfer project will strengthen Botswana&#8217;s long-term water security, support industrial development and enhance regional integration, President Advocate Duma Boko has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Officiating at the inaugural session of the Botswana-Lesotho Bi-National Commission (BNC) held in Gaborone, he said the project would unlock broader economic opportunities for the participating countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">President Boko said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190110.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 The successful implementation of the proposed Lesotho-South Africa-Botswana (LESABO) water transfer project will strengthen Botswana&#8217;s long-term water security, support industrial development and enhance regional integration, President Advocate Duma Boko has said. Officiating at the inaugural session of the Botswana-Lesotho Bi-National Commission (BNC) held in Gaborone, he said the project would unlock broader economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236880,"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":[7325,258,256,4718,2462,54658,257,6504,10767,254,6722],"class_list":["post-236879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-lesabo","tag-news","tag-project","tag-scarcity","tag-south-africa-today","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\/236879","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=236879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}