Sudanese model Alek Wek announced H&M Conscious Foundation’s partnership with WaterAid to deliver safe water and toilets to 250 000 school students in many of the world’s poorest countries by 2017 at the Global Citizen Festival in New York’s...
The upcoming International Gender, Water and Development Conference provides a platform to forge partnerships that will address the challenges faced by the sector. It will also address the roll-out of the African Ministers Council on Water’s...
Sharing resources between Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa will help mediate water shortages. All three countries face severe backlogs in water provision. A water management conference is discussing this in Mpumalanga. Source: SABC...
The recent water supply interruptions in Gauteng came under the spotlight on Friday at the Gauteng Premier’s Coordinating Forum meeting. The meeting chaired by Premier David Makhura and attended by the mayors of all municipalities in Gauteng,...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane has cautioned the Rand Water board to work more closely with communities and improve on its communication to timeously alert and educate communities on all matter relating to water challenges,...
Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane and the leadership of Rand Water addressed the media on Friday regarding the water shortages affecting parts of Gauteng. The water shortage affecting parts of Johannesburg, Pretoria,...
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane, met with the Rand Water board and its senior officials last night for a full status quo report on water interruptions in Gauteng Parts of Pretoria and Johannesburg have been without water for...
Rand Water, in collaboration with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), recently unveiled its new Water Wise demonstration garden at Pretoria National Botanical Gardens. The garden has been designed to educate the public on...
South Africa is over-exploiting its freshwater resources and water scarcity may shortly emerge as one of the most significant constraints on South Africa’s human-development prospects. This is according to African Futures Paper 11 titled “Parched...
