Landfills create leachate, a liquid that seeps from waste, which is highly hazardous and can contaminate groundwater. SRK Consulting, an international consulting firm that offers technical services to the natural resource industries, maintains that...
The continuous rain throughout South Africa has boosted the country’s water levels, usually a good situation. However, over capacity dams pose flooding risks and the Vaal River system level is currently at 112% necessitating a controlled...
With the Vaal Dam water levels at 107.30% today, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has opened a third sluice gate at 12h00 midday, to increase the outflows to approximately 400 cubic metres per second (mᵌ/s), and to also manage the...
Following the recent media coverage of a borehole that damaged the Gautrain tunnel in Johannesburg, the Borehole Water Association of Southern Africa (BWA) has emphasised that borehole drilling is not an illegal activity and has advocated for the...
