The South African Sanitation Technology Enterprise Programme (SASTEP) is a national system of #innovation platform that seeks fast-track the adoption of innovative and emerging #sanitation technologies in South Africa through fostering local manufacturing and commercialization.
The programme was created by the Water Research Commission (WRC) in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and the Bill and Melinda Foundation (BMGF) and with the support of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).
The programme is an operation vehicle of the WRC’s transformational vision SANiTi: Sanitation Transformation Initiative.
Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, Mr David Mahlobo, has reiterated the importance of public-private partnerships in resolving long-standing water and sanitation challenges in the Mpumalanga province. He said this when he officially opened a...
The WISA Gauteng Branch, in partnership with the University of South Africa (UNISA), hosted a Collaborate and Connect: Water Sector Career & Networking Day. The event brought together aspiring professionals, seasoned experts, and academic...
For more than two decades, residents of Emfuleni have endured some of the worst water and sanitation failures in South Africa. Entire neighbourhoods regularly lived with sewage flowing through streets, homes and schoolyards. Pump stations collapsed...