Almost 40% of water supplied in KwaZulu-Natal is being lost, Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa revealed on Monday. In a written reply to a parliamentary question, she said the 14 water service authorities (WSAs) in the province lost, in total,...
Rural communities across Africa may soon benefit from improved water supplies thanks to mobile phone technology. UK researchers have developed data transmitters that fit inside hand pumps and send text messages if the devices break down. The...
Seven of the world’s 10 most populated regions face such severe water shortages over the next three decades that they threaten to derail the growth, which hundreds of millions of people in the developing world are banking on to lift them out...
The revised Proposed Basin Plan is the latest step in a policy process that began 20 years ago, when a cap was imposed to stop the unsustainable growth in extractions of water from the Murray-Darling Basin. Before the cap, the capacity of the...
