This video animation was produced as part of a project that investigated the impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño event on parts of eastern and southern Africa. The El Niño event exposed new urban drought challenges for businesses in southern Africa: water supply disruption and hydroelectric load shedding.

This video was informed by the following research paper: Gannon, K.E. Conway, D., Pardoe, J., Ndiyoi, M., Batisani, N., Odada, E., Olago, D., Opere, A., Nyambe, M., Kgosietsile, S., Omukuti, J. & Siderius, C., (2018), Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño, Global Sustainability, 1, e14, 1–15. https://doi.org/ 10.1017/sus.2018.14 [http://bit.ly/2BR6ueP

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