The UK-aid funded Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is working to strengthen Africa’s water security. The facility looks for different approaches that can be used to achieve this through its various infrastructure...
Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane signed a water co-operation agreement with Italy that will allow South Africa to collaborate on projects that will help improve SA’s management of its water resources. The project aims to improve...
South Africa and South Australia have both been on the receiving end of the El Nino phenomenon that has sucked the land dry in recent years. While SA’s drought has lasted two and a half years, Australia has seen a slight turnaround in average...
Safe and clean drinking water is a basic right to all South Africans, however there was a new threat going undetected until recently. Several medical and agricultural departments at the University of Pretoria have partnered with Rand Water to...
The “Municipal Benchmarking Initiative” report from 2015 – compiled by the SA Local Government Association and the Water Research Commission – found the country didn’t even have 10% of the required number of engineers needed to...
Melusi Maposa, Accenture’s Managing Director: Resources says he would like to see an increased uptake of As-A-Service models, as this allows utilities to leverage private capital to achieve service delivery outcomes by allowing private players to...
The IFAT Environmental Technology Forum – Water, Sewage, Refuse and Recycling – Solutions for the Mining and Construction Industry will take place for the first time from September 15 to 18, 2015 co-located with BAUMA CONEXPO AFRICA. Messe München...
Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the environmental health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development...
Earlier this month delegates gathered for a flagship workshop on Water Science Cooperation for Human Capital Development at the University of Kwazulu- Natal. Dhesigen Naidoo, CEO of the Water Research Commission (WRC) presented the South African...
