Two of South Africa’s largest lakes – Sibaya and St Lucia – are being drained by a combination of drought and the growing water demands of the timber industry and local people. This is the warning from scientists attending the recent national...
Eskom reports it is making 200 megawatts of power available to the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) on a day-ahead basis, meaning the hourly prices of the power on any day are set the previous day. Under the day-ahead system, market members, such...
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) in the Western Cape Region is calling on residents and people engaged in assortment of activities near dams and rivers to be cautious as dams, canals and reservoirs in the province are at full capacity due to...
The annual Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Conference and Exhibition is a high-level event, providing consulting engineers and associated industries a unique networking and learning experience that supports its members’ business,...
The Water Research Commission (WRC), in partnership with the Departments of Water Affairs (DWA) and Science and Technology (DST), will host the Water Research and Development Symposium at the CSIR International Convention Centre from 25 to 27...
Zimbabwean Environment and Climate Minister Saviour Kasukuwere spent the day at Hwange National Park, the country’s largest reserve. At least 69 elephants died there after poachers poisoned the wells. The government has vowed to step up the...
The eThekwini Municipality will deploy all available resources in an attempt to reduce the escalating rate of water loss in the City, according to an announcement by the Municipality’s Communications Unit on the 18 September. According to the...
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, has come out strongly in defence of the bilateral agreement signed with Cuba on Monday 9 September 2013, in a recent statement to the public in which she says she would like to clarify...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) has a released a statement assuring residents of Duduza that the water is safe to drink. “There is no truth to the malicious rumour that surfaced last week alleging that the drinking water in Duduza...
While the annually utilizable groundwater resources in South Africa are in the same order of magnitude as the surface water sources – 7 000 to 10 000 million m³/a – at this point only 20% of this volume is used. “This figure presents a large unused...
