The Department of Water and Sanitation has to date supported 17 municipalities in the Western Cape to enhance water security and improve water quality through the Regional Bulk Infrastructure Grant programme. This was highlighted during a meeting...
An innovative system to utilise return effluent from the Cape Recife Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW), is set to reduce demand on Port Elizabeth’s fresh water supply. The system, designed by local firm Africoast Consulting Engineers, will...
There is a shortage of skills in the water and sanitation sector and the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), through its Learning Academy External Bursary Scheme, is providing bursaries to aid in closing this gap. The Department is calling on...
The eThekwini Human Settlements and Infrastructure Committee recently approved R6.8 million for the upgrade of a Three-Mega Litre Reservoir in Ward 59. The Municipality is currently developing a housing project in the Ogunjini area, Ward 59 and the...
The Oudtshoorn Municipality in the Western Cape is under the spotlight following allegations of serious financial mismanagement and service delivery challenges, among others. On Wednesday, the Department of Cooperative Governance and traditional...
The SADC Water Week initiative, which aims to gather input towards the formulation of the fourth phase of the Regional Water Programme, moves to Mauritius from the 3 to 5 June 2015. The SADC Water Division is holding Water Weeks in the 14 SADC...
Our country needs a water and sanitation revolution. This is was the conclusion of the debate on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s budget in Parliament last week, where Minister Nomvula Mokanyane called for urgent changes in the way...
About 88% of South Africans have access to clean drinkable water and almost 78% of the country’s population have access to decent sanitation, this is according to the Minister of Water and Sanitation,Nomvula Mokonyane. “Plans are underway to...
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has recently appointed three consultants on Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, says Refiloe Tlali, CE of the LHDA. The three awards, collectively worth slightly more than M40 million...
