Environmental justice groups have questioned Thirsti’s groundwater abstraction at its KwaZulu-Natal facility, alleging use beyond its authorisation as the company seeks a water…
AfriForum cannot, on one hand, criticise state-owned entities for their perpetual reliance on bailouts and on the other hand, also criticise them when they engage in secondary…
Nearly half of South Africa’s wastewater treatment plants are in a critical state, with untreated sewage polluting rivers and dams
The latest Green Drop report shows how the country’s rivers are being “turned into sewage channels”
The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water…
Without urgent remedial action, ‘further deterioration is likely to continue’
Residents have been urged to evacuate downstream of Senteeko Dam in Mpumalanga
SCORE: E With 105 of South Africa’s 144 municipal water service authorities classified as failing – representing nearly three-quarters of the country’s water governance…
The conditions of people who work and live in South Africa’s farms today have remained the same as under apartheid. Will the new amendments in legislation bring about change?
With Johannesburg said to be fast approaching ‘Day Zero’, the mayor was also questioned about missing funds
Political and administrative delays, treaty complications and changes in government leadership contributed to the jump
Department of water and sanitation urges those living within the floodline to move to safe areas
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has picked up on the introduction of racial quotas for black shareholding in water use licences, sparking fierce debate
The province is ‘not doing the right things’ to rescue itself from running out of water, Pemmy Majodina told parliament’s portfolio committee on water and sanitation
Contingencies are in place for the maintenance shutdown, the water and sanitation department says
This was achieved through a partnership involving the Vaal community, Rand Water, Rhodes University’s Centre for Biological Control, the water and sanitation department and the…
New Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says she will work with municipalities that are in debt, diversify water supply to include desalination and introduce measures to…
The six-month period required to conduct maintenance is crucial to ‘avoid any catastrophic event’
The situation is frightening, says an anonymous source who used to work at the department of water and sanitation
Experts like civil engineers say it is not too late to save South Africa’s waterways from high levels of pollution
