The North West Province’s Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is the first municipality in the country to be approved by National Treasury to pledge their conditional grants in order to bring forward implementation of water and sanitation...
More than a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and some 300 million of them are in Africa. Industrial design students Ryan Lynch and Marcus Triest have an interesting approach to tackling the problem in sub-Saharan...
Relief may be coming to the driest nation in southern Africa. The discovery of a 10,000-year-old supply of water in an underground aquifer in northern Namibia, near the border with Angola, could potentially reshape the developing nation’s ability...
As part of Science Week, learners at the Lenyora Lathuto Comprehensive School in the Botshabelo area, Free State, will be learning about water purification. “We will be going to the Mangaung Municipality where they have the purification...
Municipalities owe South Africa’s water boards almost R2.3 billion, Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said last Thursday. In a written reply to a parliamentary question, she said the “in arrears” portion of this debt, on 31 April...
A Free State municipality’s inability to provide clean running water to residents had been found to be a human rights violation, the DA said in July. “The Democratic Alliance welcomes the steps taken by the SA Human Rights Commission in...
Two-year project is due for completion next July. The water use verification project underway in the Upper Orange Water Management Area is proceeding apace and has entered the end of the validation phase, says Ashwin Seetal, specialist sector...
The world needs clean water, and more and more, we’re pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it and drinking it. But what to do with the salty brine left behind? Research engineer Damian Palin proposes an idea: Mine it for other minerals we...
Concor Civils, a Murray & Roberts Construction company, has begun earthworks on a contract awarded in May this year by Johannesburg Water to construct a new 20ML water reservoir and a 1.2ML water tower in Lanseria. The contract includes minor...
