A new small-scale hydropower (SSHP) scheme will soon provide electricity to 39 households in the KwaMadiba settlement in the rural Eastern Cape. Rural electrification has the potential to dramatically improve the standard of living in South Africa,...
Gazetted yesterday by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), Gauteng is officially no longer under water restrictions. This applies to both urban and irrigation users. This follows the recent heavy rains that filled the Integrated Vaal River...
Nazir Alli has been named the chairperson of the new interim board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters today announced the new interim board members. Alli brings with him 18 years of experience...
SRK Consulting SA was rated as one of South Africa’s top five companies in the consulting engineering (mining and infrastructure) segment in the recent Top 500 Companies Awards. The awards survey over 3 000 businesses and honour those who excel in...
Cape Town is under level 3B water restrictions as dam levels hit a low of 31.5% – amounting to 21.5% of usable water. However the city has finally achieved its goal water savings target of 800 million litres, which was set towards the end of 2016....
Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has published the draft coastal waters discharge permit regulations for public comment. The draft regulations provide the much-needed guidance sought by operators around discharge into coastal waters....
Move over Cape Town. Nelson Mandela Bay could soon be declared a disaster area as the ongoing water crisis worsens. According to City Mayor Athol Trollip, despite water savings, the city is running out of water which could spell catastrophe for the...
A Restrictions Management Committee will soon be convened in the Western Cape to coordinate all water restrictions and drought related matters. This comes after Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane met with the Western Cape provincial...
President Jacob Zuma will launch the 17th edition of United Nations’ World Water Development Report in KwaZulu-Natal next week as part of World Water Day celebrations. In line with the UN’s 2017 World Water Day theme – Waste Water the untapped...
