The Knysna Municipality is considering punitive tariffs to curb wasteful water usage as the situation has reached critical levels, with reserves down to less than 20 days at the current consumption rate. The municipality has described the situation...
In a bid to provide some much needed sustainability for the country’s stressed water resources, Operation Hydrate is drilling boreholes in drought-stricken areas across the country. This as National Water Week gets underway from the 17th to...
Limpopo police have arrested a man allegedly masquerading as a municipal employee and demanding R500 000 from contractors in return for a R305 million water project. Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Malesela Ledwaba said the...
Although the El Nino that started the drought in South Africa is showing signs of slowing down, the looming winter season will leave the country dry. Dr Dennis Dlamini, a hydrologist at the Department of Water and Sanitation, says water limitations...
The Mpumalanga government has set aside over R600 million to address water challenges in Bushbuckridge. Some villages in the Bushbuckridge area are without access to drinking water. Government’s alleged failure to provide clean drinking water...
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector could lead to greater pressure on water resources, increasing water use and thermal water pollution according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters....
The City of Tshwane’s Water and Sanitation Department has shut down water supply to the Pretoria CBD this morning saying it urgently needs to replace a leaking pipeline. City officials say it was decided to immediately do the work today to...
The “Municipal Benchmarking Initiative” report from 2015 – compiled by the SA Local Government Association and the Water Research Commission – found the country didn’t even have 10% of the required number of engineers needed to...
More than 20 million of litres of water have been delivered to the North West Province through water tankering. Since the North West Province drought declaration, there have been constant coordination of integrated planning and actions including...
