WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre on 7th and 8th November 2012 to provide visitors with the latest information on regulations, standards, methods and...
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) has been fudging delivery figures relating to the Rural Households Infrastructure Grant (RHIG). This was revealed today in a presentation by the National Treasury to the Portfolio Committee on Human...
Mutare City Council is reportedly losing millions of dollars worth of treated water due to illegal connections and massive leakages because its piping system is now obsolete. Town clerk Obert Muzawazi told journalists last Friday the city was...
Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels. Professor Sosten Chiotha, an expert with...
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it: inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. With cutting-edge nanotech,...
The Australian government has pledged 17.5 million Australian dollars (18.3 million US dollars) to the Transboundary Water Management Programme of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), according to a press release from the Australian...
Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open...
The Makhado and Vhembe municipalities are being dragged into court after failing to provide the people of Makhado (formerly known as Louis Trichardt) with sufficient water as required by law. AfriForum is finalising legal papers to force the local...
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) wishes to re-assure the people of Carolina in the Mpumalanga province that the tap water is safe to drink. The Department has noted with concern conflicting media reports on the water quality and the...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is in full support of National Planning Minister, Trevor Manuel’s call to accelerate the pace of change and development in the country in order to increase growth. CESA agrees that failure to implement the...
