Most cities in Nigeria today lack toilets for its citizens. This is according to Dominic Abonyi, the assistant registrar, Environmental Health Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON). Speaking to Nigerian newspaper Leadership Weekend Abonyi...
Improvements to water and energy infrastructure must continue in the New Year, President Jacob Zuma said in his new year’s statement. “[In 2014], we celebrated the milestone of 11 million connections to electricity since 1994,” he said,...
The Government of Ethiopia recently launched a National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) Forum and NQI Standard Committee. The committee, which aims to transform Ethiopia’s economy through quality and standard products, is important in the...
Windhoek could be facing water shortages as a result of very little rain and a severe drop in water levels in the three dams that supply the city. This is according to the latest NamWater dam bulletin. The New Era Newspaper reported that the delay...
Officials in India will be heading out with mobile phones, tablets and iPads this month to report on whether toilets are being used in rural India, with results uploaded onto a website in real time. This nationwide online programme was launched...
At least two people were killed and several others injured on Sunday when a six-storey residential building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials said. City officials said 22 survivors had been pulled out of the rubble of the building,...
Load shedding has changed the way some people use electricity at their homes. Even though Eskom’s power grid is now stable some consumers are still cautious with power. They have been motivated by Eskom’s messages to save energy and...
The community of Masiphumelele in Cape Town will soon see the construction of two multi-million rand Early Childhood Development centres. The project is the result of donations received from private funders, with completion expected by the end of...
Three colleges within the Nkangala Further Education and Training (FET) College scheme recently received electric motors, switchgears, soft starters and other electric equipment as part of a donation from the Zest WEG Group. Nokuthula Shabangu, the...
A smart grid facilitates the efficient, intelligent use of available energy, reducing demand on South Africa’s already strained network, and potentially easing the demand for expensive new power stations. How can the barriers to entry be overcome...
