A newly launched water transfer scheme upgrade will secure water supply for the Richard’s Bay area. This medium term solution will see the upgrade of the Thukela-Goedertrouw Transfer Scheme through which water will be pumped from the Thukela River...
Currently, 13 of South Africa’s dams are below 10% full, 58 dams are below 40% and 29 dams are above 100%. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) continues to monitor 211 dams on a weekly basis. “Our national storage situation is still...
Billions in funding is needed to finance projects aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the private sector has a role to play, reports the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). In September 2015, the United Nations...
The country’s dam levels have increased by 1% since last week, reports the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), with some provinces still experiencing a decrease in levels. According to the DWS, there has been a 1% increase in the average dam...
The War on Leaks team has welcomed 7 000 new trainees as part of Phase 2. The Phase 2 training officially began on 10 August, following vigorous preparation from the War on Leaks team. Addressing the new trainees, Fezeka Zwane from War on Leaks...
Climate finance totalling $81 billion was mobilised for projects funded by the world’s six largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2015, a new report has found. This included $25 billion of MDBs’ direct climate finance, combined with a...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has re-established its call centre in a bid to boost service delivery. According to DWS spokesperson Sputnik Ratau, the call centre will be a point of access to all information about the programmes and...
Rainfall over the past two weeks in KwaZulu-Natal has helped to slightly raise some dam levels in major dams across the provincial system. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for the 12 and 24 month period from July 2013 to June 2016...
Concrete has a low embodied energy which is an important factor for “green building”, says Bryan Perrie, managing director of The Concrete Institute. Perrie says embodied energy is the energy consumed for the raw material extraction,...
