A water lobbyist and originator for water deals, Redeem Ngadze from Nedbank, talks to Water & Sanitation Africa about the funding of water projects. What is your role in Nedbank? RN As part of a team, I help to create an environment that...
South Africa’s water system is in trouble. In the 2020/21 financial year alone, there were over 55,800 pipe bursts, over a third of reservoirs have supply problems, and years of underfunding of infrastructure replacement and maintenance has...
In line with Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s directive, water entity Rand Water has procured and delivered 100 water tanks and 10 tankers (trucks) to Nelson Mandela Bay Metro to ease water supply challenges as a result of the ongoing drought effects in...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has committed to effectively implement the recently re-launched Blue and Green Drop Certification Programmes, which call for excellent drinking water and wastewater quality management in the country. The...
The Ga-Mopedi Bulk Water Project, valued at R15million, has recently been completed in the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality. A total of 1200 households or population of just over 7000 people are already benefiting from the project. Due to the...
The Department of Water and Sanitation in the Northern Cape in partnership with Magareng Local Municipality (LM) is implementing a more than R83 million water project in the Warrenton area. The project commenced in April 2020 and was scheduled to...
We live in a digital and connected world, where we can fashion medicine through genetics and send rockets into orbit like clockwork. Yet over 2 billion people still lack access to basic sanitation, and at least a quarter of those practice open...
A report issued by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on status of reservoirs has shown a consistent decrease in the Eastern Cape provincial water storage, a decline from 52.9% last week to this week’s 52.3%. The area of Nelson Mandela...
South Africa is facing a deepening water crisis. The 2030 Water Resources Group predicts that based on our burgeoning population, economic growth forecasts and current water use efficiency, the country’s demand for water will exceed supply by 17%...
