Reflection
When I first started this blog, I was under the impression that the African water crisis was uniform across the supposedly “dry” continent. As naive as that sounds, I had never considered that there may actually be parts of Africa which do indeed have sufficient water to satisfy the population. No TV appeals ever show clips of the tropical rainforests in Tanzania, nor the wetland areas such as those in the Hadejia-Jama’are river basin. For me, the most surprising thing was how much freshwater parts of Africa has in groundwater reserves. If tapped into, it has the potential to overcome much of the continents water crisis. The problem is not so much a physical scarcity of water, as it is an economic and political issue of access. Learning that many biotechnology companies capitalize on the food crisis in Africa has definitely changed my opinion on whether the use of GM seeds should be used to increase crop yields in arid climates. Whilst the development of drought-resistant cro
