Cape Town Faces Looming Water Shortage and Inequality
Cape Town may run dry amid drought and government delays forcing private fixes. Wealthy residents drill boreholes and buy bottled water while poor communities wait for official relief, highlighting Africa’s stark income gap and water as a public good.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Giulio Boccaletti
Water
Nature Conservancy
Portia Ngqulana
Gugulethu
Nelson Mandela
Gabby de Wet
de Wet
World Bank
Anna Orthofer
Stellenbosch University
Atlantic Ocean
Khayelitsha
Xanthea Limberg
Table Mountain
Ndabezitha
Andiswa Maxakata
Table View
Carsten Hensel
Hensel
Las Vegas airport adds amnesty boxes for marijuana disposal
McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas installs amnesty boxes to allow travelers to ditch marijuana before flights. Boxes may also accept other drugs and will be emptied by a local waste company on a usage-based schedule. Other airports in Colorado and Washington have considered or rejected similar programs.
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Las Vegas
McCarran International
Henderson
Christine Crews
McCarran
Clark County Commission
Nevada
Washington, D.C
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Denver International
Stacey Stegman
Crews
Waste Management Company
Portland International
Oregon
Seattle-Tacoma International
Washington
Perry Cooper
Sea-Tac
Seattle Seahawks
Denver Broncos
Transportation Security Administration
Cooper
California
Los Angeles World Airports
San Francisco International
Kama Simonds
Portland
McCarran International Airport
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Europe
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