Water and Sanitisation Department probed for corruption
Around R16,5-billion in irregular expenditure by the Water and Sanitation Department is being probed. Source:...
Water
Safeguarding of water infrastructure enhances service delivery
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed the first COVID-19 case on 05 March 2020. Proactively, the Government of South Africa acted swiftly by declaring COVID-19 a disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act (57 of 2002). In...
South Africa’s dam levels see sharp rise
With the country’s dams 70,4% full, municipalities have enough water to supply their respective residents without having to cut off supply abruptly to save water. According to the weekly report by the Department of Water and Sanitation the country...
‘Stop cutting water supply at night’ – warns Sisulu
Water and Sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu, has appealed to municipalities throughout the country to refrain from the abrupt cutting of water supply to residents as this deprives them of their basic human right of access to clean water. The...
