{"id":48713,"date":"2026-10-22T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48713"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:31:37","slug":"lesotho-highlands-water-project-marks-40-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/lesotho-highlands-water-project-marks-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Highlands Water Project marks 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is marking 40 years as a major cross-border water infrastructure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The long-standing Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a partnership between Lesotho and South Africa (SA), transferring water from the Senqu-Orange River basin in Lesotho\u2019s mountains to SA\u2019s Vaal River system, while enabling Lesotho to generate clean hydroelectric power.<\/div>\n<div>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority is hosting a three-day stakeholders conference.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This year&#8217;s water conference is under the theme &#8220;Reflection, Accountability and Shared Understanding&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32456,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48713","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Lesotho Highlands Water Project","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48715,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48713\/revisions\/48715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}