MARGARET FUTHANE moved house recently. Unimpressed? Well, read on. The story of Futhane and her country’s water could scarcely be a better advertisement for what sustainable development ought to be about.
Futhane moved out of her shack in the township of Tembisa, near Pretoria, where she’d had to buy a few litres of water of dubious quality from a neighbour each day, at a cost of $18 a month. Now she lives in a proper house with clean, running water, and her monthly water bill has fallen to less than $4 for as much as she wants. Millions in South…
