SA is irked as a man jailed for taking kickbacks in Lesotho returns to work on Lesotho Highlands project, which supplies water to Gauteng. Tensions are simmering between the South African and Lesotho governments over the appointment of a fraud...
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane must intervene directly to ensure a lasting, cost-effective solution to the acid mine drainage crisis, DA Gauteng spokesman Jack Bloom said on Sunday. “The acid mine drainage crisis in Gauteng has been...
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...
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...
Failing infrastructure, inadequate investment, bad management and decay pose a threat to SA’s water systems, some of which are on the brink of collapse. In a water-scarce country with erratic and unpredictable rainfall, insufficient...
Acid mine drainage, municipal water losses and farmers’ unlawful water use were each independently putting the Vaal River system at risk, the Department of Water Affairs said yesterday. The Vaal River system is crucial to South Africa’s wellbeing...
Jonathan Julyan studied electrical engineering and made fruit juice for a living but is now sold on the water industry. People ask me how long I’ve been in the water industry,” says electrical engineer Jonathan Julyan. I say:...
Phase II of Lesotho Highlands water is expected to deliver 465 million cubic metres a year to South Africa by 2020. Lesotho’s election results this week have seen the country experiment with its first coalition government when business ties with...
The WRC’s latest water history offering has just been published. The new book, In the Footsteps of Giants – Exploring the History of South Africa’s large dams, is now available following four years of painstaking research. The glossy, full...
