The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has received notification regarding a privately owned dam, located near Barberton in Mpumalanga under the City of Mbombela Local Municipality, which has been reported to be at risk of failure. The dam...
Water is often taken for granted, if you’re lucky enough to have it coming out of taps. Yet it lies at the heart of national security. Controlling water means having control over a key resource that keeps an economy running and stable. Water...
For more than two decades, residents of Emfuleni have endured some of the worst water and sanitation failures in South Africa. Entire neighbourhoods regularly lived with sewage flowing through streets, homes and schoolyards. Pump stations collapsed...
The holistic approach of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) considers risks throughout the life cycle of a tailings storage facility (TSF) – including the decades following closure and, in some cases, even longer where...
