Don't worry, some UN SJW is coming to improve things. Should increase the GDP of Botswana to a half or a quarter of what it is.

Lovely country and people.
Basically the ONLY African success story mainly because it is comprised of one tribe, not many.

Botswana is the only real democracy in Africa.

And ...... ?

Ateday. Sad but true comment.

But not limited to Africa, given the patent tribalism, we oft times refer to government in OZ One only has to tune in at question time to see evidence of this stone ae phenomenon. All that's missing is the war dance and thrown spears?

And possibly explains why we are constantly beaten to the mark by ou near and much smaller neighbour, NZ, which paradoxically is apparently the least corrupt nation or democracy, with 12 others ahead of us in those estimates?

Imagine, title protected against all comers by the drilling and ownership of a bore/ imagine if that prevailed here?

What would that do to native title claims?
Alan B.

And talking about bores and referenced in the article to land title, a retired driller I had a conversation with. Informed me, every second bore drilled came up too salt to use, even though some of the flows were quite remarkable!

And had something to do with the direction of the underground flows and the differentiation between north/south and east/west. One or the other always being salt?

This then brings me to deionisation dialysis desalination, field trialled in Texas U.S.A., relatively recently to establish cost-effective broad scale irrigation. And with overhead travelling irrigation?

With desalinated water that was shown to be four times cheaper than traditional memtech. And a staggering 95% potable into the bargain. Moreover, able to remove more ions than just salt! But possibly those now contaminating water bores, contaminated with the chemicals found in firefighting foam?

This should represent an opportunity for governments of all persuasions to roll this technology out for a broken farm-based economy, even where it is used to grow fooder for those not blessed with such a convenient if currently capped resource.

Then use it in underground tape applications to quite literally quadruple the Texas experience!

And where broad scale applications are just not possible, perhaps domestic supplies and the wastewater from that used in fodder sheds.

Everyone reading these lines should confirm the science then write to friends and ask them to do likewise until sheer numbers of knowers force action on the part of visionless lacklustre parliaments, more concerned with rubbish like euthanasia!

Even as a debt-laden economy is going, along with the climate, to hell in a handbasket!
Alan B.