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💔Africa has a MAJOR Cabro / impervious paving problem and it is causing all sorts of #ClimateAdaptation, #WaterPollution, #WaterScarcity, #UrbanFlooding and #drainage problems.
The 'Nouvea Riche' and contractors in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are especially notorious for this!
The 'Nouvea Riche' and contractors in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are especially notorious for this!
Someone, somewhere lied to us that never seeing soil is the ultimate sophistication.
Now everyone has covered everything in hideous cabro and plastic turf 😭
Impervious surfaces like Cabro do not allow water to seep into the ground.
And that causes SEVERAL issues:
Now everyone has covered everything in hideous cabro and plastic turf 😭
Impervious surfaces like Cabro do not allow water to seep into the ground.
And that causes SEVERAL issues:
1. Water scarcity.
Cabro makes water flow fast into drains.
When water does not seep into the ground, it means that natural groundwater is not recharged.
The water we use, our rivers, boreholes, wells, depend on rainfall slowly seeping into the soil for recharge.
Cabro makes water flow fast into drains.
When water does not seep into the ground, it means that natural groundwater is not recharged.
The water we use, our rivers, boreholes, wells, depend on rainfall slowly seeping into the soil for recharge.
