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Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. The Senqu River. photo Greg Marinovich
Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Above the Senqu River, Mamasako Lesotsa, 48, with her 18 month old daughter Bohlokoa, with the five dual purpose chicks she received the week before from the Serumula Development Project, which she hopes to use for eggs for home and for sale, and also eventually as a source of chicken meat. She volunteers her labour three days a week to fight soil erosion, clear invasive bushes and plany nutritious grass seeds such as Erogrotus Curvular (check sp) on common lands where she is one of many villagers who graze their livestock. She and her husband and 4 children have 20 sheep, 1 pig, and 1 cow. They have started a keyhole vegetable garden with manure and ash. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Stone walls built by community volunteers to stop further erosion and rehabilitae rangelands above the Senqu River. Mamasako Lesotsa, 48, with her 18 month old daughter Bohlokoa, with the five dual purpose chicks she received the week before from the Serumula Development Project, which she hopes to use for eggs for home and for sale, and also eventually as a source of chicken meat. She volunteers her labour three days a week to fight soil erosion, clear invasive bushes and plany nutritious grass seeds such as Erogrotus Curvular (check sp) on common lands where she is one of many villagers who graze their livestock. She and her husband and 4 children have 20 sheep, 1 pig, and 1 cow. They have started a keyhole vegetable garden with manure and ash. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Above the Senqu River high school girls attending Maseribanel high school lounge around in their nightgowns at the privately-run Phakisi Girls Hostel. photo Greg Marinovich
Qacha's Nek, Lesotho, Janury 28 2012. A wedding in Qacha's Nek, Lesotho. Greg Marinovich
Maseru, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. Water gushes from a broken supply pipe and flows into the local stream in Maseru West's industrial area that is known as the 'Blue River' because of the colour of the water which is polluted from clothing - especially jeans - manufacturing factories which have been allowing their effluent to flow into the stream which leads to the nearby Caledon River and then the Senqu or Orange River. Jenas manufacture, especially the fashionable stone wash and aged styled ones, are serious pollutors. The factories are essential to Lesotho's economy, even though clothing manufacturing accounts for some 48% of Lesotho's water use. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Maseru, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. Water gushes from a broken supply pipe and flows into the local stream in Maseru West's industrial area that is known as the 'Blue River' because of the colour of the water which is polluted from clothing - especially jeans - manufacturing factories which have been allowing their effluent to flow into the stream which leads to the nearby Caledon River and then the Senqu or Orange River. Jenas manufacture, especially the fashionable stone wash and aged styled ones, are serious pollutors. The factories are essential to Lesotho's economy, even though clothing manufacturing accounts for some 48% of Lesotho's water use. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Maseru, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. Water gushes from a broken supply pipe and flows into the local stream in Maseru West's industrial area that is known as the 'Blue River' because of the colour of the water which is polluted from clothing - especially jeans - manufacturing factories which have been allowing their effluent to flow into the stream which leads to the nearby Caledon River and then the Senqu or Orange River. Jenas manufacture, especially the fashionable stone wash and aged styled ones, are serious pollutors. The factories are essential to Lesotho's economy, even though clothing manufacturing accounts for some 48% of Lesotho's water use. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Quthing, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Senqu River. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
Letseng, Lesotho, Janury 28 2012. The Ramsar site of the source of the Quthing River in Lesotho is on the watershed of the great escarpment that divides the flow of rivers either to the East and the Indian Ocean or to the West and into the Senqu River to the Atlantic Ocean. This sensitive ecological site is protected, yet for years the Lesotho government has struggled to keep local inhabitants from grazing on the wetland. Lesotho police Inspector Mohlapiso Mohlapiso investigates the theft of vital fencing from the experiment to see how the wetland grasses grow with no grazing. The growth in a small protected block is phenomomal, yet horses, sheep, goats, antelope and birds share the now overgrazed area, inhibiting its ability to retain water. Greg Marinovich
Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Stone walls built by community volunteers to stop further erosion and rehabilitae rangelands above the Senqu River. Mamasako Lesotsa, 48, with her 18 month old daughter Bohlokoa, with the five dual purpose chicks she received the week before from the Serumula Development Project, which she hopes to use for eggs for home and for sale, and also eventually as a source of chicken meat. She volunteers her labour three days a week to fight soil erosion, clear invasive bushes and plany nutritious grass seeds such as Erogrotus Curvular (check sp) on common lands where she is one of many villagers who graze their livestock. She and her husband and 4 children have 20 sheep, 1 pig, and 1 cow. They have started a keyhole vegetable garden with manure and ash. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
R553, Lenasia South, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 26, 2012. Mozambican migrant Tom Alvert sells barbel and carp for between R30 and R45 a fish along the R553 south of Soweto. He and his fellow countrymen use fishing rods to catch the fish in dams all around Gauteng, especially the Vaal Dam. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Letseng, Lesotho, Janury 28 2012. The Ramsar site of the source of the Quthing River in Lesotho is on the watershed of the great escarpment that divides the flow of rivers either to the East and the Indian Ocean or to the West and into the Senqu River to the Atlantic Ocean. This sensitive ecological site is protected, yet for years the Lesotho government has struggled to keep local inhabitants from grazing on the wetland. Lesotho police Inspector Mohlapiso Mohlapiso investigates the theft of vital fencing from the experiment to see how the wetland grasses grow with no grazing. The growth in a small protected block is phenomomal, yet horses, sheep, goats, antelope and birds share the now overgrazed area, inhibiting its ability to retain water. Greg Marinovich
Maputsoe, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. The Ace Apparel clothing factory in the industrial zone of Maputsoe where the owners say they only have water about two thirds of the time, and they have to get potable ater in drums for staff drinking and washing, as well as for steaming the clothes that are all for the South African market. The water for the toilets is collected by bucket from a trough of dam water. This particular factory employs 900 people. The inability to supply water to a designated industrial area that is essential to Lesotho's economy - even factories such as these cut and sew ones where they do not use the water intensive laundry process, is puzzling. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Maputsoe, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. The Ace Apparel clothing factory in the industrial zone of Maputsoe where the owners say they only have water about two thirds of the time, and they have to get potable ater in drums for staff drinking and washing, as well as for steaming the clothes that are all for the South African market. The water for the toilets is collected by bucket from a trough of dam water. This particular factory employs 900 people. The inability to supply water to a designated industrial area that is essential to Lesotho's economy - even factories such as these cut and sew ones where they do not use the water intensive laundry process, is puzzling. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Maputsoe, Lesotho, January 27, 2012. The Ace Apparel clothing factory in the industrial zone of Maputsoe where the owners say they only have water about two thirds of the time, and they have to get potable ater in drums for staff drinking and washing, as well as for steaming the clothes that are all for the South African market. The water for the toilets is collected by bucket from a trough of dam water. This particular factory employs 900 people. The inability to supply water to a designated industrial area that is essential to Lesotho's economy - even factories such as these cut and sew ones where they do not use the water intensive laundry process, is puzzling. Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi
Quthing, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Senqu River. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
Letseng, Lesotho, Janury 28 2012. The Ramsar site of the source of the Quthing River in Lesotho is on the watershed of the great escarpment that divides the flow of rivers either to the East and the Indian Ocean or to the West and into the Senqu River to the Atlantic Ocean. This sensitive ecological site is protected, yet for years the Lesotho government has struggled to keep local inhabitants from grazing on the wetland. Lesotho police Inspector Mohlapiso Mohlapiso investigates the theft of vital fencing from the experiment to see how the wetland grasses grow with no grazing. The growth in a small protected block is phenomomal, yet horses, sheep, goats, antelope and birds share the now overgrazed area, inhibiting its ability to retain water. Greg Marinovich
Mount Moorosi, Lesotho, January 26, 2012. Stone walls built by community volunteers to stop further erosion and rehabilitae rangelands above the Senqu River. Mamasako Lesotsa, 48, with her 18 month old daughter Bohlokoa, with the five dual purpose chicks she received the week before from the Serumula Development Project, which she hopes to use for eggs for home and for sale, and also eventually as a source of chicken meat. She volunteers her labour three days a week to fight soil erosion, clear invasive bushes and plany nutritious grass seeds such as Erogrotus Curvular (check sp) on common lands where she is one of many villagers who graze their livestock. She and her husband and 4 children have 20 sheep, 1 pig, and 1 cow. They have started a keyhole vegetable garden with manure and ash. Much of southern Lesotho is semi-arid as a result of being in the rain shadow of the mighty mountain ranges that are the source of the mighty Senqu /Orange River. photo Greg Marinovich
Mphaki, Lesotho, Janury 28 2012. Near the border between South Africa and Lesotho. The Ramsar site of the source of the Quthing River in Lesotho is on the watershed of the great escarpment that divides the flow of rivers either to the East and the Indian Ocean or to the West and into the Senqu River to the Atlantic Ocean. This sensitive ecological site is protected, yet for years the Lesotho government has struggled to keep local inhabitants from grazing on the wetland. Lesotho police Inspector Mohlapiso Mohlapiso investigates the theft of vital fencing from the experiment to see how the wetland grasses grow with no grazing. The grpwth in a small protected block is phenomomal, yet horses, sheep.goats, antelope and birds share the now overgrazed area, inhibiuting its ability to retain water. Greg Marinovich
