The Department of Water and Sanitation has called for calm in Sheepmoor, Mpumalanga, after residents took to the streets to protest against recent water shortages. The community, which shut down schooling in the area, is protesting at the Kliphoek...
Members of the public have until the end of September to submit their comments on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s Mine Water Management Policy. According to the department the Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and related mine water impacts...
Residents living in the western suburbs of Johannesburg will be without water for the next 33 hours as Rand Water begins replacing and repairing portions of the main line. The cuts will start at 8am on Tuesday 5 September. “The planned shutdown is...
The City of Cape Town has implemented level 5 water restrictions following an announcement by executive Mayor Patricia de Lille on Sunday. In a statement, the mayor said the upper limit of 87 litres per person and the overall target of 500 million...
Understanding and recognising the many different values attached to water is the key to more efficient use. This was the message participants took home after World Water Week officially closed on Friday 01 September 2017. The link between the value...
World leaders, water experts, development professionals, and policy-makers have gathered in Stockholm this week to find ways to better use, and reuse, the world’s increasingly scarce fresh water. World Water Week is the world’s biggest global...
A deficit of almost 2 billion m3 in potable water is expected by 2025. With the current state of South Africa’s Gordon Allen, MD of Gurumanzi, believes all risks, including water crises, need to be discussed in company boardrooms. ...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has completed its national raw water consultations where it presented proposed raw water tariffs for the 2018/19 financial year and listened to input from key stakeholders in the water and sanitation...
Phela Ramoeli, SADC Secretariat Head of Water Division, speaks about water quality and industrialisation at the 7th SADC River Basin Organisation Workshop at The Vaal, South Africa. Source: Global Water Partnership Southern Africa
