Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
desalinationlatest news & developments

Thirsty alien eucalyptuses get the chop

The trees are being felled along the Breede River and the biomass sold back to their native Australia

Desalination will relieve arid SA, but it’s too expensive

Renewable energy would lower operating costs, while more and bigger plants would drive down infrastructure expenditure

Cape Town’s desalination plant budget dries up

If the national government doesn’t intervene, residents could end up footing the bill

Misleading: Caron von Zeil’s desire to restore Table Mountain’s Camissa springs is good from a historical perspective but it won’t solve Cape Town’s water crisis

Letters to the editor: February 16 to 22

Readers write in about how to deal with the water crisis and the pitfalls of an ANC ‘democracy’

Drilling for water in the Karoo where one major concern from fracking is that groundwater will be affected in the shale gas extraction process.

What are the rules on boreholes? Can you use seawater to flush?

"We have to reassess our relationship with water, and the City supports the move by residents to explore more sustainable water-wise technologies"

Ultimately

Cape Town races to beat Day Zero

The city could run out of water in March and is rushing to get measures such as desalination in place

EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said Gigaba

Drought-struck coastal cities go for expensive Plan B

Slow work on water department projects blamed for ‘last resort’ emergency freshwater plants.

Urgent move on polluted water

Water Affairs department’s plan of desalination to deal with acid mine drainage has to be fast-tracked before sulphate levels reach dangerous levels.

Global water crisis sparks surge in desalination

The world’s unquenchable thirst for clean water drove a record increase in the desalination of seawater and reuse of sewage last year.