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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, 1, e14, 1–15. https:\/\/doi.org\/