South Africa will not be able to meet its water needs in the near future without reusing water that has already been used for sanitation and industrial purposes. “Securing South Africa’s water future will require a proactive approach to...
With the Vaal Dam water levels at 107.30% today, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has opened a third sluice gate at 12h00 midday, to increase the outflows to approximately 400 cubic metres per second (mᵌ/s), and to also manage the...
Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank’s approach to development for many decades. From the bank’s early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power plants and transport networks were central to its...