South Africans are being encouraged to wash their hands. But this is not so easy for many communities in the country, who have little or no access to clean water. One of these areas is the Harry Gwala district in southern Kwa-Zulu Natal.
The technical investigation into the failure of the Jagersfontein Fine Tailings Storage Facility (FTSF), has found that the owner of the tailings dam, Jagersfontein Development (Pty) Ltd, may have been aware of structural instability along the...
In South Africa, limited supplies of usable water, compounded by ageing national, provincial and municipal water infrastructure, continue to impact the daily lives of individuals and businesses across the country. Service delivery pressures,...
In rural sub-Saharan Africa, access to clean drinking water often depends on a simple technology: the handpump. These manually operated systems pump water out of the ground for more than 184 million people. Yet despite their importance, research...