Johannesburgarians, Pretorians, Centurions – lend us your eyes. And your Midrandics, Sowetans and Ekhurularians for that matter. Curious to know more about the place in which you live? The Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO) – an organisation tasked with recording and projecting all things Gautengian – has just released a neat new website full of graphs, data and other stats to nerd out about.
Called the State of the Gauteng City Region, it’s an ongoing project which isn’t quite finished yet and needs better navigation, but could be a fantastic future resource for journalists, academics and the civic-minded in the future. Did you know, for example, that we’re on course to be 764 million cubed meters of water a year short to meet demand by 2025? Or that residents of Midvaal are the happiest with their local government? (They’re just as pissed with the national leadership as the rest of the province, mind).
It’s a fascinating trove of facts, figures and projections which – with the entire region predicted to be one massive megacity by 2050 – more people should probably be aware of. Check it out here.
