Clean Water for Africa: A dream whose time has come

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Written By Geoff Hill

Geoff Hill is a Zimbabwean writer working across Africa. In this paper, he explains why reliable energy for Africa is the only way to address the continent's chronic lack of clean water.

To give Africans a better quality of life, we need to do more than blame the climate. There are solutions, and most of them involve electricity. That’s the key to granting everyone the basic human right of clean water.

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Clean Water for Africa

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Geoff Hill

Geoff Hill is a Zimbabwean writer working across Africa. His media career began at the Manica Post in Mutare in 1980 and he has worked on all six continents.

A life-long conservationist, he has written extensively about the environment, and rescued more than 5,000 snakes from urban homes for release in the wild, catching his first brown house snake at 10 years old and a mamba at 14.

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