Fewer than half of 23 drinking water and sanitation projects funded with development aid from the European Union (EU) in six Sub-Saharan countries have met the needs of beneficiaries, and 19 are at risk of failure without ongoing financial support,...
Umgeni Water, South Africa’s second-biggest bulk water utility that supplies water to large parts of KwaZulu-Natal, was in a positive financial situation with positive cash flows. But, it needed to continue leveraging grant funding to maintain its...
After a period of ten years, the Working for Water programme, which is the brainchild of the former minister of education as well as forestry and environmental affairs, Prof Kader Asmal, has taken a giant leap after the injection of R18.3m to the...
Durban – More than 5 000 Durban residents have given the thumbs-down to the city’s controversial toilet-to-tap water recycling proposal. Most of the objections, which include a large number of signatures from Muslim residents, are contained...
Officials in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape on Sunday said they cannot guarantee the safety of drinking water because of floods. The coastal town is one of several areas in the province that was the hardest hit by last week’s heavy rains. At least...
The proportion of households with access to piped water has increased since the last census conducted in 2001. This is according to the Census 2011 results released on Tuesday 30 October 2012. The findings show that the proportion of households who...
Durban is set to become the first city in the country to begin desalinating seawater for drinking-quality tap water – but residents will probably also have to swallow purified sewage water because of a serious water supply shortage over the next...
The Accelerating Sustainable Water Services Delivery project was launched in March in Mbelu, Eastern Cape. InfrastructureNe.ws takes a look at the project that was a joint initiative. The main objective of the initiative, started under the...
The EIB supports the integrated bulk water supply to 5 million people around Durban. The project’s scale and technical challenges as well as diverse local concerns are being overcome to allow supply of clean water to be secured.
