The government’s latest Blue Drop report has confirmed the growing concern in South Africa’s tap water quality and management processes in numerous rural districts and a few towns. 23% of municipalities has been listed at critical risk by the...
A report on the state of South Africa’s water treatment has been released after nine years of research by the Blue Drop and Green Drop Certification Programmes which are forms of Incentive-based Regulation (IBR) pioneered by the South African Water...
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas build-ups within wastewater networks are the main cause of accelerated biogenic corrosion in concrete structures. Unless countered, H2S will significantly shorten the life of infrastructure assets, but there’s a proven...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) has led the South African initiative towards developing web-based epidemiology (WBE) platform that reports on the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in collected samples of wastewater. Launched together with the...
