{"id":249862,"date":"2026-11-11T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-explores-new-water-solutions\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:00:27","slug":"botswana-explores-new-water-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-explores-new-water-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Explores New Water Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Antalya \u2014 Botswana is exploring floating solar panels on dams and other water-saving technologies to tackle growing water shortages worsened by climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In an interview on the sidelines of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Turkey, Minister of Water and Human Settlement, Mr Onneetse Ramogapi said water security remained a top national priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;Water is life and a necessary resource for all sectors, be it health or agriculture. Climate change has a negative&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110600.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>Antalya \u2014 Botswana is exploring floating solar panels on dams and other water-saving technologies to tackle growing water shortages worsened by climate change. In an interview on the sidelines of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Turkey, Minister of Water and Human Settlement, Mr Onneetse Ramogapi said water security remained a top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249863,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,16140,257,16100,254,6722],"class_list":["post-249862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-explores","tag-news","tag-solutions","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\/249862","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=249862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}