Half of respondents treat their municipal water by boiling or filtering it before consumption, while 8% specified that they drink only bottled water
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Nearly half of South Africa’s drinking water systems are in a poor state
The lengthy period of very high temperatures in November broke monthly records
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This comes as Karpowership secures authorisation for Saldanha Bay project
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He is one of six defendants who this week an reached out-of-court settlement with an Australian mining company in a long-running defamation battle
The Emissions Gap report says nations must go further than current pledges under the Paris Agreement or face 2.5°C to 2.9°C of warming
Toxins are found in water and the soil and these harm human health and the environment
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South Africa lacks a detailed, long-term national system of data collection on dust storms
Monday’s severe thunderstorm cannot be directly attributed to climate change
The bodies of numerous bee-eaters and swallows who had migrated from the Northern Hemisphere were found around the country