Water Galore For The Bushmen In The CKGR?

10 November, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Staff Writer

Who needs to ferry tanks of water in trucks now when the wilderness is alive with boreholes of free flowing water?

The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) may not need to load trucks with water tanks now after 10 boreholes inside the wilderness were recently refurbished and new ones drilled, to water the wildlife there.

Now it is feared the Bushmen are ready to take advantage of the latest developments inside the CKGR, with the new facilities most likely to attract hundreds of Bushmen into the wildlife area, thus defeating the Botswana government’s effort to keep the CKGR clear from human habitation. Lack of water has always been the key factor that prevented the Bushmen from settling in [continue reading]