Harvesting rainwater in rain barrels to water plants is one way to cut back on water usage. Rain barrels can cost about $50 and some are even decorative to use for irrigation.
“Temperatures on the continent are rising faster than the global average,” said National Geographic’s Nichole Sobecki, a photographer who has spent the last decade documenting the effects of climate change in Africa. “We’re also seeing increasingly frequent and extreme drought, extreme weather events that are happening at a far greater frequency than we’ve ever seen before.”
Visitors take pictures before dry cliffs following a prolonged drought at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Dec. 4, 2019. Visitors take pictures before dry cliffs following a prolonged drought at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Dec. 4, 2019.When it comes to drought, there are ways to help conserve water at home that make a difference at scale. By implementing some of these changes, water use can decline from 231 gallons a day to 146 gallons a day.Give up lawns and plant drought resistant-native yards, or even put in turf.
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