Adding to Aurecon’s growing list of environmentally sustainable building projects, Mayfair on the Lake, a multifunctional development on KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) prestigious Umhlanga Ridge, has been awarded a four-star Green Star SA Office As Built v1...
Gauteng has pioneered the first green school in the country in Centurion, recently opened by the province’s Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. The state-of-the-art Orefile Primary School is set to dramatically improve learning conditions in...
Lawi Joel reports in the Tanzania Daily News that Dar es Salaam produces on average 4 100 tonnes of municipal waste every day but is able to remove only 50% of the load. Joel says the city is “choking in its own waste”. Waste, if improperly...
This short film highlights the Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation needs of rural areas, specifically looking at Women and Water issues.
Caption: Unveiling of the new library building at Isibonela Nursery School in Ogies. The Zest WEG Group recently partnered withTouch Africa and M-Net Cares to build the library at the Isibonelo Nursery School in Ogies, Mpumalanga. The company’s...
Stakeholders in the water sector expressed concern that South Africa could face a serious crisis if water regulation is not seriously implemented. This came during a provincial stakeholders’ consultative workshop held in Mahikeng on Tuesday. The...
P2W Ltd.(Pollution to Water), owned by CEO Palmach Zeevy, has signed its first contract in South Africa – a NIS 35 million deal with mining giant AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU; LSE; ASX: AGG; JSE; GSE: AGA) to clean mines’ water...
Villagers from Matavhela and Mufulwi have had their tap water supplies restored after alerting OurHealth that they had to rely on unsafe rain and river water. Two weeks ago OurHealth reported on the woes of the fed-up villagers who have been...
Seven in 10 women in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a safe toilet, which threatens their health and exposes them to shame, fear and even violence. This according to a survey conducted by WaterAid on women living across five slums in Lagos,...
In 2001, Singaporean businessman Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organisation to bring attention to the lack of sanitation in developing countries. Travellers are still taking part in the organizsation’s annual World Toilet Day (19 November),...
