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
It has been five years since a bulk water supply project was started in the Limpopo Bushveld but people still don’t have water
The international ecological restoration conference takes place in Cape Town next week
Hammanskraal citizens are being forced to buy their own as well as pay their municipal bills.
For Cape Town to survive, it needs more than just a good technical approach to managing water
"Mandela’s values were not confined to realising political freedom but included issues such as environmental justice."
The town can’t afford to fix trucks to deliver water and mismanagement forces people to walk long distances to collect the precious resource
Figures supplied by the industry body, the Association of Rotational Moulders of Southern Africa, shows that growth last year was 28.7%.
In a country where pipes can stop short of reaching home, cheap sachets of water sold on the street could be an unlikely solution, but at what cost?
Riyaz Rawoot is helping to make a spring in the Newlands suburb more accessible to thousands of citizens
In Namibia, the national government has piped water to many remote villages and put them in charge of distribution and payment
Working together to restore human dignity through universal access to water and sanitation
Equitable access to the resource and the benefits derived from it are central to transformation
The purpose of the forum is to generate demystified and interpreted weather and climate information to assess the options and possible remedies
Maintaining water projects that communities have initiated is vital to keep them running
Florence Negondeni and other residents of Tshakhuma went to the mountain and piped water to 4 000 people
The reality is many of us look at water like we do a takeaway container.
Residents say they find themselves without water almost weekly
Drought-stricken farmers in the Western Cape have had to abandon at least a quarter of their high-value vineyards and fruit orchards
The remaining 10% in the Theewaterskloof Dam is largely regarded as unusable if used through the current dam system
The world has abundant fresh water but it is unevenly distributed and under increasing pressure, United Nations agencies say
I believe that Israel does not see Palestinians as humans. But in South Africa we believe that access to clean water is the constitutional right
The physical predicaments we experience go far further than what our conditioned minds perceive