See powerful images of the Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme, capturing water infrastructure, landscapes, and the communities it affects. It is well known that Johannesburg receives most of its potable water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, via...
South Africa’s water networks face escalating sabotage by criminal syndicates known as ‘water mafias’. By destroying infrastructure and exploiting tanker contracts, they profit from people’s desperation while deepening inequality. What began as...
The City of Johannesburg, together with Johannesburg Water and City Power, is running a Level 3 Disconnection Drive targeting chronic non-paying, high-consumption customers with long-standing, unpaid, and undisputed municipal debt. The drive is...
As South Africa’s largest development finance institution, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) showcases how funding can unlock opportunities while also revealing persistent hurdles in water and sanitation investment. “Established in 1940,...
