The project – one of South Africa’s biggest infrastructure jobs, employing more than 12 000 people – involves the laying of a 555km pipeline to transport diesel, jet fuel and petrol from Durban to Gauteng. The pipeline already...
Plans by the eThekwini municipality to use recycled water to provide 10% of its water needs have been dealt a heavy blow by citizens. A petition with 5Â 000 signatures was handed over to the municipality as part of the environmental impact...
Durban is set to become the first city in the country to begin desalinating seawater for drinking-quality tap water – but residents will probably also have to swallow purified sewage water because of a serious water supply shortage over the next...
Last Wednesday, the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) released its State of Municipal Capacity Report (SMCR) for the 2010/11 financial year. The report is a bigger, beefier piece of analysis than previous editions of the SMCR, and it could be a...
