South Africa’s latest Green Drop Report is more than a dataset. It is a diagnostic of an essential national service in critical condition. Of 848 wastewater treatment works assessed, 396 are in a critical state, while only about a quarter...
Operating at the tail end of the heavily polluted Crocodile West River Catchment, Magalies Water is confronted with some of the country’s most compromised raw water matrix. But through internal control processes, science, innovation and a focus on...
For more than two decades, municipalities across South Africa’s West Coast District grappled with a mounting waste crisis: small, scattered landfill sites, many of them unlined, overfilled, and poorly controlled, were becoming both environmental...
Long before his career in waste management, Jarrod “Rod” Ball used to swim in an abandoned quarry near his childhood home. One day, the municipality began dumping waste into it; an event that left a lasting impression. At that early age, Ball had...
