Full dam can't guarantee water

If there is any doubt about the power of nature to recover from adversity, you need do little more — if you live in Gauteng, especially — than look around you.

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A few short months ago, the skies were cloudless and the veld — as well as crops — were shrivelling in the repeated heat waves. The Vaal Dam shrank to just over 23% capacity in the first week of this year.