Many EU-backed sanitation and water projects in sub-Saharan Africa are unsustainable because of missing technical and financial support, says a new financial audit of more than 20 development projects. A report by the European Court of Auditors...
Access to clean drinking water has been the subject of service delivery protests and even court action. For some communities, having permanent access to the resource has become a luxury. Unhappiness with the pace of delivery has seen many...
“In the protection of our ecosystems we must invest in the most cost-effective ways with regards to human capital development and finance. To this end I would like to stress that nations that share ecosystems, such as international waters, can most...
Some 1 500 people living in Tahtay Adiyabo, in the north of Ethiopia, now have access to clean drinking water thanks to four wells built in the district, located along the border with Eritrea, by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
A study of almost 200 major international water-related projects over the past 20 years has identified a suite of existing and emerging challenges and how science can offer remedies. The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest public funder...
Lesotho’s Highlands water system, which supplies water from the mountainous kingdom to the South Africa province that includes Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, will shut the next two months for maintenance work. Gauteng province, South...
As factors from droughts to urbanisation add to the dire global water crisis, the ensuing misery falls even more on women and girls in the world’s poorest countries. The statistics are staggering:around the world, women and girls expend a...
Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing, the mayor said last Saturday. “We are going to have a big flush every Monday to...
Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) announced earlier this month that it is investing R21 million in a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) to facilitate the manufacturing of the all-new Ranger at FMCSA’s Silverton Assembly Plant. The...
