The Zimbabwe National Water Authority or ZINWA has begun a national exercise to register boreholes throughout the country as the water crisis continues to affect many in the cities. Under new rules, the water ministry now requires all borehole...
By 2025 half the world’s population will not have enough water to meet its needs, warns Rashad Kaldany, urging governments and the private sector to work on solutions, which he says, do exist. Rashad Kaldany is vice president for Global Industries...
Uganda’s economy loses an estimate of 177 million U.S. dollars, 1.1 percent of GDP, annually due to poor sanitation, a new World Bank report released on Tuesday has said. According to the desk study, Economic Impacts of Poor Sanitation in Africa...
The United States invests hundreds of millions of dollars in water sector activities around the world. Over 750 million people world-wide do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and 2.5 billion people still lack access to improved...
Buckman has joined forces with Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) in a move set to put the chemical company in an industry-leading position. Andre Maartens, sales manager for the Energy Division of Buckman Africa says: “As a chemical supplier we...
Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life. Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women...
Andre Haspels, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Neil Macleod, Head of eThekwini Water & Sanitation (EWS) officially launched the Centre of Expertise at the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) conference in Cape Town on the...
On 20April 2012, the Thebe Foundation – in association with the Bongi Ngema–Zuma Foundation – fulfilled a long-held promise to King Goodwill Zwelithini to provide a rural community on the Nkunzana River in northern KZN with safe drinking water....
International business travel on African routes continued to rise in March, according to the latest International Air Transport Association (Iata) survey. It showed that business class and first-class travel between Africa and the Middle East rose...
Although not on the same playing field as the emerging economies of Brazil, China and India, which continue to boom in terms of market potential; Africa has been earmarked by industry experts as a region to watch closely following strong...
