Polokwane Municipality says water levels at all its reservoirs are critically low, with some of them already empty. This follows the shutdown of supply by Lepelle Northern Water to allow for repair work on the Specon pipeline from the Olifantspoort...
The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee has approved the step up to Level 2 water restrictions in Cape Town. This item will now go before Council for deliberation at the next meeting on 10 December 2015. The City imposes Level 1 restrictions (10%...
One of the areas north of Durban worst hit by the drought is likely to have a steady water supply all through the festive season, thanks to the use of recycled water. Sembcorp Siza Water, a municipal commissioned distributor of bulk water in the...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) is hosting the second in a series of Dialogues on the current drought in South Africa in Pretoria on 27 November 2015. Following on from the first Dialogue on 6 November, which focused on identifying research...
Botswana has finalised a deal with South Africa and Lesotho to tap some of the water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. According to a report by the Africa News Agency Botswana’s Minister of Mineral, Energy and Water Resources Minister,...
The National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) is an organisation funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) and hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Since the NCPC-SA began operating 12...
A global water solutions giant recently celebrated the expansion of its facility in Rustenburg. Xylem Water Solutions South Africa has a strong presence across the country and continues to invest heavily into its regional branches. The newly...
The rate, at which existing senior engineers at the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) are retiring, is alarming as it cuts to the very head of the water sector, threatening paralysis of the body. This is according to Dr Chris Herold, who was...
An elite UN panel has warned that current water and sanitation infrastructure requires a major overhaul if the world is to meet related objectives in the post-2015 agenda. The Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation –...
