Q.What is BOCMA’s role in ensuring that it adheres to its vision: Quality water for all, forever? A.The Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency (BOCMA) plays a central role in protecting, using, developing, conserving, managing and controlling...
Executive Secretary of the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) Dr. Canisius Kanangire has advised water officers from the EAC partner states to prevent corruption in the sector as it undermines the provision of services to the people of the...
Failing infrastructure, inadequate investment, bad management and decay pose a threat to SA’s water systems, some of which are on the brink of collapse. In a water-scarce country with erratic and unpredictable rainfall, insufficient...
The North West Province’s Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is the first municipality in the country to be approved by National Treasury to pledge their conditional grants in order to bring forward implementation of water and sanitation...
More than a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and some 300 million of them are in Africa. Industrial design students Ryan Lynch and Marcus Triest have an interesting approach to tackling the problem in sub-Saharan...
Relief may be coming to the driest nation in southern Africa. The discovery of a 10,000-year-old supply of water in an underground aquifer in northern Namibia, near the border with Angola, could potentially reshape the developing nation’s ability...
Fifty seven million earmarked for sanitation in the North West province has not been spent and 33% of household in the province have sub-standard sanitation. The provincial government says the two service providers appointed by the National...
As part of Science Week, learners at the Lenyora Lathuto Comprehensive School in the Botshabelo area, Free State, will be learning about water purification. “We will be going to the Mangaung Municipality where they have the purification...
Many parts of the country were covered in snow today. The South African weather service says today is possibly the first time that snow has fallen in all nine provinces. The weather service says it’s not unusual to have snowfall just before...
Despite the considerable lax of trade restrictions across boarders, high transport costs are emerging as the new business hurdle for East African ventures. This was aired by the Kenya Shippers Council (KSC), CEO Gilbert Langat in Nairobi during the...
