The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) in the Western Cape urges all water users in the Western Cape to use water sparingly. The call coincides with the end of the hydrological cycle for the majority of Western Cape Province Catchments....
Due to continuous water disruptions, some of Africa’s largest hospitals are installing water tanks. Water storage solution provider, ABECO Tanks, has installed a 114 kℓ tank for the Covid-19 ward in Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. They also...
The Department of Water and Sanitation in the Northern Cape will send a team of water and environmental experts to various points of the Orange River System to monitor the ecological condition of the Lower Orange River System. The Orange River...
The Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu has made a solemn undertaking to address the water situation in Giyani, adding that those involved in any maleficence that has caused delays and escalating costs will be dealt with harshly. He was...
South Africa’s water system is in trouble. In the 2020/21 financial year alone, there were over 55,800 pipe bursts, over a third of reservoirs have supply problems, and years of underfunding of infrastructure replacement and maintenance has...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a new policy on water, prioritizing water security and the transformation of water assets to foster sustainable, green and inclusive economic growth in regional member...
There has been widespread acts of vandalism to water and sanitation infrastructure in the Western Cape. The recent discturbing incident was the attack of City of Cape Town water officers which left one in hospital. Added to this are continued...
The first massive eucalyptus trees have been felled in the mid-Breede River area in a bold ‘value-adding chain’ project that will return 7 million litres of water per hectare cleared per year to the river system, and will sell much of the gum tree...
The concept of the Water-Wise City, as outlined by the International Water Association (IWA), is a key initiative to assist cities to conserve this precious resource. What’s more, Water-Wise Cities are liveable, resilient, sustainable, and...
