3SMedia | Apr 15, 2021
The first massive eucalyptus trees have been felled in the mid-Breede River area in a bold ‘value-adding chain’ project that will return 7 million litres of water per hectare cleared per year to the river system, and will sell much of the gum tree...
3SMedia | Apr 6, 2021
The levels of the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) have increased, as the 14 dams within it continue to remain relatively stable. This comes after it saw a decline in the past two consecutive weeks. According to the Department of Water and...
3SMedia | Feb 23, 2021
Although the countdown to day Zero no longer scares South African citizens, the current Covid-19 pandemic has put more pressure on areas that continue to live with little to no running tap water. This means citizens in these areas are unable to...
3SMedia | Feb 19, 2021
The Department of Water and Sanitation is seized in ensuring that water use license applications are fast tracked and finalised within 90 days in line with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pronouncement in his State of the Nation Address last week. The...
3SMedia | Feb 12, 2021
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) released water from the Vaal Dam on Thursday, 11 February 2021, in anticipation of rainfalls expected over the Orange River System. These rains would be as a result of the activities that are building up...
3SMedia | Feb 1, 2021
According to the Department of Water and Sanitation’s weekly status of dams, Limpopo provincial water storage has shot up, soaring from 60.3% last week to 64.7% this week. This is an improvement that is worthy of attention given the fact that same...
3SMedia | Nov 23, 2020
The Vaal Dam has recorded an increase in levels for the second consecutive week, signalling that the recent heavy showers are steadily replenishing the dam after a long-running period of decline. Inching up from last week’s levels of 30.2%, the dam...
3SMedia | Nov 13, 2020
The Gauteng provincial water storage continues to decline week on week despite the recent rains that soaked some parts of the province in recent days. To this end, the provincial average of water stored in the province’s dams dropped once more from...
3SMedia | Nov 3, 2020
Large parts of the country’s dams continued their downward slide this week despite heavy showers falling in Gauteng over a period of three days at the beginning of the week. A weekly dam level report by the Department of Water and Sanitation shows...
