The true amount being spent on water usage is obscured by the fractured nature of its provision.
Cleaners who spend their days emptying portable toilets have to eat lunch amid the stench and flies and the City doesn’t allow them to shower at work.
Elderly Sowetans say the council has hoodwinked them into agreeing to meters they don’t want.
Over R600-billion is needed over the next decade to fix poor infrastructure and extend coverage – but less than half of this is available.
People of Carolina had every right to go to court for the relief sought, irrespective of what others may have done in the past, says George Bizos.
Poor toilet facilities has reflected the state’s lack of recognition of informal settlements as permanent residences, writes <b>Gavin Silber<b>.
The South African Human Rights Commission has cast light on the issue of water and sanitation in the country’s informal settlements.
War and chaotic infrastructure planning have left the river-rich country with a dire sanitation system.
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/ 19 February 2011
SA’s metropolitan areas are heading for a major water crisis by 2020, a former director general of the Department of Water Affairs has warned.
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica on Wednesday denied there was a sanitation crisis in South Africa.
If water is the new oil, is blue the new green? Translation: if water is now the kind of precious commodity that oil became in the 20th century, shoul