With nearly 19 000 tanks needed for emergency water supply, the already broke water department is exhausting its future budget for crucial projects in areas already without water
As the country prepares to go into lockdown, residents fear that they may be at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19
Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane’s leadership is being dissolved due to collapsing service delivery
Monday. It’s the start of the working week, but I’m already exhausted, worn out. I haven’t had much of a weekend, with jobs on Friday and Saturday, so there’s been no real opportunity to catch my breath after the previous week’s news cycle. It’s amazing how quickly I got used to having a weekend after […]
Sabotage and infighting threaten the water supply of 750000 South Coast residents
New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water
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
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
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
Working together to restore human dignity through universal access to water and sanitation