The City of Cape Town’s first temporary desalination plant in Strandfontein is delivering high-quality treated desalinated water into the City’s supply system. Executive Deputy Mayor, Alderman Ian Neilson says the plant is injecting 4.7 million...
City of Cape Town Executive Mayor, Patricia de Lille on Tuesday commissioned a project to bring additional drinking water online from the Oranjezicht Main Springs Chamber and Molteno Reservoir. The initiative, which is part of the city’s Water...
The Buffalo City Municipality has come out to dispute claims that its water supply is contaminated. According to a statement by the municipality a recent message widely circulating via social media has cast doubt on the quality and suitability of...
Earlier this month the City of Cape Town unveiled its Water Resilience Plan to augment the system by up to 500 million litres of water a day over the coming months using groundwater extraction, desalination, and water reuse. The Water Resilience...
Turning raw river water into potable drinking water will become a reality in Zambia with the intervention of a Johannesburg-based company. Water and wastewater engineering company WEC Projects was recently awarded a contract to install a water...
Despite the South African government’s efforts to improve basic services nationwide, several areas across the country’s nine provinces still find it challenging to gain access to clean, running water. Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) recently...
The International Water Association (IWA) has released a manual to assist services providers with achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. The Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners aims to help...
Drinking water is an effective source for the spread of gastrointestinal microbial pathogens that can cause severe human diseases. The large number of deaths and disease burden in the world caused by unsafe drinking water is a compelling reason to...
In July this year Umgeni Water turned 40 years old – a remarkable milestone in the history of the organisation. FOR FOUR decades, Umgeni Water has been abstracting raw water, treating it and delivering it as safe drinking water to six...
