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A stranded asset in the making. The Kusile coal-fired power plant in South Africa is years overdue, billions over budget, and may not have sufficient supplies of water when it is completed in the early 2020s. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue

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Water Scarcity, Public Protest Slow Foreign Farmland Purchases

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