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Constitutions don’t pump water: why healthcare needs a water strategy

Leave a Comment / Environment, Public health / By Gareth Kantor

Lessons from the global leader in water management South Africa’s Constitution guarantees the right to sufficient water. Water is recognised as a condition of dignity, health, and citizenship, and the state is obliged to take reasonable measures to realise that right. Constitutions do not pump water. When water systems fail, consequences for healthcare are immediate. Maternity …

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When is a health club not healthy?

3 Comments / Environment, Public health, Safety / By Gareth Kantor

Loud music: the new smoking If you join an exercise class at your local gym, one thing will probably strike you immediately – loud music with a thumping bass, and an even louder instructor. The strike isn’t metaphorical. Noise physically damages one of the human body’s most delicate and precious structures: the inner ear. Many …

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In 2011 we could have ended the Eskom crisis, reduced residential carbon emissions and had healthier air to breathe

Leave a Comment / Environment / By Gareth Kantor

August 2008 saw the first of South Africa’s rolling blackouts (load shedding). Three years later, the R360 billion financing of two massive coal-fired power stations – Kusile and Medupi – was approved. At around the same time, financing to move the country toward a very different energy future was proposed: a Green Bond to pay …

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Constitutions don’t pump water: why healthcare needs a water strategy

When is a health club not healthy?

In 2011 we could have ended the Eskom crisis, reduced residential carbon emissions and had healthier air to breathe

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