Water Crisis

South Africa has a slew of service-delivery problems, most notably in the water and electricity sectors. The time for promises is over: what the country needs is action

A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as trading sex for water

The municipality turned a deaf ear to residents’ cries — until they united and took it to court

More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade

Impoverished residents have sought legal advice after the Witzenberg Municipality withdrew indigent subsidies for those who refused to allow it to install water management devices.

Conflicts have doubled in the past decade, with 26% of these occurring on the African continent

We all have a responsibility to use it wisely for our generations and for those to come

Little has changed in Hammanskraal since the Mail & Guardian last visited the area in August, when residents said the tap water had made them sick.

A previously undisclosed tender report reveals that the contract to fix a key wastewater treatment plant was delayed for over a year

Colourful Numbers is a new podcast that attempts to tell the stories behind the data, particularly the ones that are important for our survival

The Cabinet minister is accused of surrounding herself with supporters to help get her to the top

The real crisis with water supply is that South Africa doesn't know what it doesn't know