Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations — 25 to 50 years on average — leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, a University of Florida (UF) researcher...
South Africa is facing a sanitation crisis aggravated by rapid urbanisation, a world toilet summit has heard. The chairwoman of Parliament’s human settlements portfolio committee, Beauty Dambuza, said last Tuesday there were huge disparities...
Doctors have warned of a possible disease outbreak in waterlogged parts of the Eastern Cape after severe flooding caused widespread damage to sewerage infrastructure. Port Alfred National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) volunteer Darryl Olivier...
Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years as water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams. Gauteng would...
