An interim order has stopped workers from illegally striking at the eThekwini Municipality’s water and sanitation unit in Pinetown. Workers brought the water and sanitation unit to a standstill when they went on strike last week, blockading the...
Delegates worked on a Peoples Plan for Sanitation and Dignity at the recent National Sanitation Summit in Salt River. The summit attracted delegates from informal settlement organisations and civil society with the aim of developing a plan that...
Governments from 50 countries recently gathered in Washington for the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting. They met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to...
Access to improved drinking water and sanitation varies widely within individual countries in sub-Saharan Africa. To achieve universal coverage of access to improved drinking-water sources and sanitation, strategies that target the areas with the...
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is disappointed by the Department of Water Affairs’s (DWA) response to its report on water and sanitation. The SAHRC recently released its Report on the Right to Access Sufficient Water and Decent...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is discussing opportunities for private sector financing in water and sanitation. To date, the AfDB has focussed its lending exclusively on public sector entities. However, AfDB head of water Mohamed El Azizi...
The Department of Water Affairs has slammed the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) 2014 report on water and sanitation for being outdated, baseless and misleading. The SAHRC recently released its Report on the Right to Access...
Southern Africa governments are not keeping their promises on water and sanitation, a new report reveals. As a result, 13 Southern African countries will miss one or both of the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for water and...
A super computing platform could help develop solutions for water and sanitation problems in Africa. IBM will be bringing its super computing platform Watson to Africa, where it will help researchers develop commercially-viable solutions in key...
