The Vumela Fund, established by FNB Business and Edge Growth, announced a new investment in Kusini Water, a cleantech enterprise that provides clean drinking water to local communities and corporates by manufacturing mobile, solar-powered water...
Thanks to automation and electrical engineering from Siemens Solution Partner Moreflow, residents in rural areas of Botswana have access to safe and clean drinking water. Botswana (like many African countries) has been battling with water shortages...
A multi-billion rand water scheme has begun servicing over 200 000 households in Mandeni, north of Durban. The area is in the Ilembe district, one of the hardest hit by drought in recent years. Communities in this rural part of KwaZulu-Natal now...
Government has already met the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals of reducing the number of people who don’t have access to basic water supply by half. According to figures released by the Department of Water and Sanitation, an estimated...
The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a US$205 million (R2.17 billion) International Development Association credit to help the government of Ethiopia increase access to clean drinking water and improve sanitation services. The funds...
A new study by Oxford University has found that globally accessible clean drinking water is achievable if good governance and management are adopted. Despite reaching the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water access in 2012, over 780...
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...
