Africa’s power development challenge is enormous, with more than 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacking access to electricity. “In this modern world electrification cannot be overemphasised and therefore all countries must endeavour to...
Blanca Jimenez-Cisneros has taken over from Bert Diphoorn as UN-Water’s vice-chairperson. Jimenez-Cisneros, who previously represented UNESCO, says she hopes to maintain and build on the good work done in the past years. “I also think that rotation...
The Zimbabwe government says it needs $27 billion to fund the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation (ZimAsset). The bulk of the money will go towards the energy, water, sanitation and social sectors. The five-year economic...
The global demand for water treatment chemicals is forecast to rise nearly 6% per annum, reaching almost $31 billion (R342 billion) in 2017. This is according to the new World Water Treatment Chemicals Market report. Rising water quality standards...
