South Africa has declared the drought and water supply crisis in three provinces as a "national disaster"

The South African Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs issued a government notice on the 4th, officially recognizing the drought and water supply crisis in Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and Northern Cape provinces in the southern and western parts of the country as a national disaster. Elias Sisolet, director of the National Disaster Management Center under the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, stated in the notice that after reviewing relevant reports, the drought in the three provinces and the potential for large-scale water supply disruptions pose risks and impacts to human safety, constituting a potential disaster, and therefore have been designated as a national disaster. (CCTV News)