Plans to build a new desalination plant on the Gulf of Aqaba are moving forward. While critics argue that the US$1billion project, which aims to address a chronic water shortage and save the shrinking Dead Sea, is expensive and potentially...
A remote region of Kenya that suffers from frequent droughts may soon be flush with water after the discovery of huge underground aquifers. Of Kenya’s 41 million people, 17 million lack access to safe water, and 28 million do not have...
Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, spent the weekend of 14th and 15th June visiting the province of Mpumalanga to hand over a number of water delivery projects to the municipalities of Bushbuckridge and Gert Sibande,...
Over R1,5 billion was spent to alleviate water shortage and give more rural communities in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District access to clean running water during the past three financial years. This milestone was noted at the North West Executive...
Lake Manyara is drying up and experts have cautioned that unless drastic measures are taken, the water body could disappear in ten years’ time. An ecologist with Lake Manyara National Park, Yustina Kiwango, said that the current water depth...
“For a long time now the world has acknowledged that the water crisis is a governance crisis, and that indeed capacity development is critical, not only for understanding the behaviour of water in a changing world, but also for improving the...
Relief may be coming to the driest nation in southern Africa. The discovery of a 10,000-year-old supply of water in an underground aquifer in northern Namibia, near the border with Angola, could potentially reshape the developing nation’s ability...
