Concluding thoughts
The issues on water development that we touched on during the posts such as groundwater, land-use changes, food security, sanitation and management techniques by community or private sector are long standing issues beyond their relation to environmental change. As the literature reviews have shown there are many causes for the current issues of many African nations, whether it be post-apartheid influences, a post-colonial economy that established dependency on the Global North and destroys local economies, an unstable democracy, an unorganized government, or corrupt local council. The relationship all these topics have with environmental change is the projected unpredictability regarding its impacts. Environmental change adds to the existing issues and complicates solutions more by now incorporating aspects like major weather variability, floods, droughts, unpredictable water borne disease patterns, food and water scarcity, safe water access; meaning the prevention of such events and c