Reading that article leaves me with the impression that a major component of their problem is substantially polluted water sources, which I don't think we can blame on climate change.

> Harare obtains raw water from four dams: Harava, Seke, Chivero and Manyame. Harava and Seke are completely dry. This has led Harare city council to decommission the Prince Edward water treatment plant, which is fed by those dams.

> This has left only one water treatment works – Morton Jaffray – supplying water to Harare and the four other satellite towns.

> The dams that feed Morton Jaffray – Chivero and Manyame – are larger and closer to capacity, said Harare mayor Herbert Gomba. But they are “heavily polluted”, requiring more than 10 chemicals to purify. Upstream towns dump domestic, sewage, agricultural and mining waste into the rivers that feed the capital’s dams. The city is spending $3 million a month on water treatment chemicals, Gomba said, forcing it to restrict the amount released.

50% of their dams are dry, and 1/4 of their dams are heavily polluted. It's disingenuous to say that pollution is their main problem when 1/2 of their water just evaporated. Nor is there any reason to think that their needs would be met by that 1 dam being non-polluted -- that may make it a lesser crisis, but it's still a crisis, caused by climate change.

It mentions drought in the second line (the quote just above the photo) and failed rains on down a bit:

>Zimbabwe is getting warmer as the climate changes and heavy rains and droughts are becoming more intense.

Which apparently wouldn't be such a crisis if their other abundant water sources weren't too polluted to use, based on what I read in the article.

Two sides of the same coin. Those who are opposed to clean air standards are also opposed to clean water standards.