The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation is beginning a visit to Kenya today, to assess the country’s water and sanitation. Catarina de Albuquerque will assess the Kenya’s achievements and...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn says Ethiopia is determined to share Nile River water with all riparian states. Desalegn said that, although Ethiopia is the source of 86% of Nile water, the country believes it is a common resource,...
The City of Cape Town will replace 5Â 000 automatic flushing urinals across the city with waterless ones. The project will save an estimated 20 million litres of water per year. As part of a pilot project, R30Â 000 worth of waterless urinals have...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane says her department will provide a sustainable and holistic water value chain as guided by the National Development Plan, the ANC manifesto, and the second National Water Resource Strategy....
The government of Ghana aims to increase urban water coverage from the current level to 85% by 2015 while taking rural water coverage to 76% in order to guarantee the availability of potable water for all Ghanaians. According to the Deputy Minister...
Sub-Saharan Africa still has a long way to go to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Close to half of the global population without water resides in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has also made little progress on improving...
Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind most other regions in the world when it comes to access, management and supply of water. An increased demand for water has highlighted the urgent need for water utilities to expand and improve their generation and...
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) recently released the Annual Report on Water Services as part of the Municipal Benchmarking Initiative (MBI) project initiated by SALGA in 2011 in partnership with the Water Research Commission...
The City of Tshwane has determined that water in Hammanskraal and Themba meets the required standards, following reports of diarrhoea. The City of Tshwane Water and Sanitation Division conducted tests at all area supply reservoirs and water network...
