South Africa: Climate change may force dams safety review

Climate change in South Africa could force a safety review of the country's dams and reservoirs, Parliament's water affairs and forestry portfolio committee has been told. "In South Africa, because of our variable climate, we have to build our dams bigger, generally, than elsewhere, because we have really big droughts and really big floods," University of KwaZulu-Natal professor of hydrology Roland Schulze told MPs.