Lesotho’s Highlands water system, which supplies water from the mountainous kingdom to the South Africa province that includes Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, will shut the next two months for maintenance work. Gauteng province, South...
Ethekwini municipality head of water and sanitation Neil Macleod has questioned research revealing high levels of a toxic chemical in the city’s sea water. But the scientist, Hideshige Takada of Tokyo University, who recently presented the findings...
At the end of June this year, the end of the 2011/2012 financial year, metro municipalities in South Africa were owed R46.1 billion. The amount for all municipalities in the country is R77.5 billion. Households remain the biggest culprit,...
Despite being a water-scarce country, South Africa faces extremely high levels of water wastage with confirmation of losses at municipalities estimated to be close to 50%. The government now warns in a report that unless the country starts saving...
