Cape Town – Building pit toilets in rural areas is an expensive and problem-plagued business, MPs heard on Tuesday. According to figures tabled before Parliament’s public services select committee, it has cost on average about R7500 to...
Ghana, according to the World Bank, spends GH₵ 290 million or its equivalent of 1.6% of GDP or $12.2 per capita on poor hygiene and sanitation annually. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, said the estimate given by the...
Nationwide water and sanitation hearings will start this week, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. The meetings will be public and will start in Mpumalanga on Wednesday and continue in all provinces until November, the...
The South African government is currently deploying many efforts towards employment creation through massive infrastructure development projects. Employment creation also figures high in water programmes, such as the Working for Water and the River...