The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) is dealing with the sewage spillage into the Vaal River in the Bloemhof area in the North West. The DWA is, together with colleagues from the Lekwa Teemane Local Municipality, the district municipality and the...
The Department of Water Affairs’s (DWA) environmental crime investigators, the Blue Scorpions, have laid criminal charges against Aurora Empowerment Systems for pollution of the Blesbokspruit. The Blesbokspruit is a protected wetland situated next...
A large area of contaminated water has been found off the coast of Eastern Shishi City, China. The plume of black water which is estimated to be the size of 50 Olympic swimming pools was discovered by Greenpeace and has been found to contain toxic...
National Enforcement Week has been kicked off by the Department of Water Affairs issuing stern warnings to companies and individuals responsible for the pollution of the country’s water resources and violating the National Water Act....
Governments across Africa have suggested holding a global water partnership in order to help communities with water shortages and strive for its better management. Threats to water sources include climate change and activities that cause pollution...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) is appalled at the current levels of pollution in the following three water sources, the Grootbrak River, in Evander/Embalenhle, the Waterval River, in Leandra/Lebogang, and the...
Are we missing something? Where I live we used to have many Indian Mynah birds. These birds seemed to be territorial and they protected their areas. They also seemed to breed at an incredible rate and there were always lots of them. From what I...
“The Department of Environmental Affairs’ (DEA) coastal oil spill contingency plan in the Richards Bay area, where a bulk carrier vessel, MV Smart, ran aground last Monday, is firmly in place as efforts to transfer oil from the vessel are set to...
Salvors on board the stranded coal carrier along the KwaZulu-Natal coast are expected to start pumping out 1,700 tons of fuel from the vessel. The 230-m carrier ran aground after engine failure in rough seas on Monday. Source:...
