By Timony Siebert, Environment Consultant at Talbot & Talbot Access to water is an urgent issue facing Southern Africa; nearly 100 million people lack adequate access to water. While access to water has become a global concern, solutions remain...
9 to 10% of existing infrastructure services are not functional and reduce the national access from 95,2% to 86%, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa announced on the occasion of the presentation of the National Council of...
Much has been written about the unacceptably high non- revenue water losses suffered by most municipalities and it is common knowledge that there are few water supply authorities that can claim a water loss of less than 30% of their purified water...
Because eThekwini Water and Sanitation (EWS) is going all out to minimise the number of leaks and conserve the city’s precious water resources, it has been decided to replace the inlet pipe that transfers water from the main line to the Jerome...
“Water resources management can ultimately only be successful if a when the public is fully on board. It is important that great emphasis be placed on creating awareness on water resources’ issues and especially to assist in the development...
The role of women in water resource management is changing, as is the focus of their interaction within the water industry, according to Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi. “We brought rural women on board to...
In unpacking the necessity of building infrastructure to consolidate the gains of the last two decades and lay the foundation for an equity-based future, Minister of Water Affairs, Edna Molewa has indicated that the capital investment in new water...
A new smartphone application could revolutionise the way groundwater specialists test for contamination in South African water says a local expert. University of Illinois researchers have developed a cradle and iPhone application which uses the...
Slowly but surely, South Africans are being forced to contemplate the inconvenient truth of water being on the endangered list. The increasingly limited access to this once plentiful resource is resulting in water taking centre stage in all our...
