In what has been hailed as a first of its kind in South Africa, City of Johannesburg water utility, Johannesburg Water (JW),officially launched its pilot Biogas Project at the Northern Works Waste Water Treatment Plant on Tuesday, 20 August 2013....
This video investigates the cost of putting in place inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene services in Uganda. A team of WaterAid and partner staff carried out an accessibility audit on water and sanitation facilities constructed by the community...
The cargo ship that ran aground near Buffels Bay in the Western Cape is sinking. Efforts to pump out the remaining oil has been abandoned in a race to get the ship as far out to sea as possible. Source: enewschannel
International consultancy, engineering and project management service provider Royal HaskoningDHV is leading a consortium commissioned by Fondo Adaptación Colombia to rehabilitate the almost 400 year old and 120 km long Canal del Dique in Colombia,...
Weekly State of Reservoirs on 2013.08.19. Click HERE for the report
The South Africa auditor-general, Terence Nombembe, has stated that a lack of “committed” leadership lies behind the sharp deterioration in financial management in municipalities. Nombembe has indicated that only nine municipalities in the country...
While the plight of hundreds of thousands of people in the country not having access to clean water and sanitation on a daily basis is common knowledge South Africa has reached a new and unforeseen dilemma – poor service delivery to private and...
There are big aspirations for Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, Inga III that is set to be built in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But analysts are sceptical that such an ambitious project will ever in fact be realised due to the project...
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements has welcomed plans to address the housing challenges faced by people living in the country’s mining towns. Human Settlement’s chief director, Julie Bayat, informed the committee that the...
South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) CEO Nazir Ali has dismissed claims by former Murray & Roberts CEO Brian Bruce that the agency approached only six companies to tender for road contracts during the 2010 World Cup. The construction...
