The City of Cape Town has launched a water map with the aim of creating a renewed sense of consciousness around water consumption in the drought plagued city. The map forms part of the municipality’s water saving efforts and was established to help...
Johannesburg Water has confirmed that an earthy compound called geosmin has been detected in the drinking water supplied to residents of the City of Johannesburg however the substance is not harmful to human health. In a statement released on...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says it believes the City of Cape Town’s proposed drought levy is the result of failed cooperative governance and a lack of the City’s ability to hold national authorities to account. The City of Cape Town...
The City of Cape Town last week started drilling to abstract groundwater from the Cape Flats aquifer as part of its ongoing efforts to mitigate the drought. Speaking at a site visit in Mitchells Plain last week, Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille...
