The Buffalo City Metro Municipality has urged residents to stockpile water as they face water restrictions which will last from Christmas till Valentine’s Day. The municipality released a statement last Wednesday explaining that residents should...
In late December the Water and Sanitation Department indicated that the release of extra water from the Katse Dam in Lesotho would bolster water supply and relieve the impact of the drought. The flow of the 10 Cumec started in late December and was...
KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) North Coast long-term water shortages may momentarily be over when the Lower Tugela Bulk Water Supply Scheme (LTBWSS) starts reticulating water to KwaDukuza and Ballito by mid 2016. Funded by the Department of Water and...
Ten 18 000 litre water tankers have been handed over to alleviate the drought stricken Eastern Cape province by Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane. The minister said, during a visit to Mbashe on Tuesday: “We are here to deliver these...
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations — 25 to 50 years on average — leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless. Now, a University of Florida (UF) researcher...
By Hermann Erdmann, CEO at REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) Three billion people will join the global consumer class over the next two decades, accelerating the degradation of natural resources and escalating...
By: Frances Ringwood Popular South African newspaper The Sunday Times recently ran a story on its online portal claiming that “South Africans should prepare to pay more for water,” citing Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Minister Nomvula...
The Sardinia water company recently needed a reliable quick fix for a wastewater line that lay at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 15 to 20 meters. Just southwest of the coast of Sardinia you will find the small island Isola di San Pietro. All...
South Africans will pay more for water in coming months as Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane announced that water tariff increases are inevitable. Speaking to the Sunday times in an interview Mokonyane said the extra money will be...
