South Africans deserve better. They deserve a public service that works, that listens and that cares. They deserve assurance, not uncertainty that when an issue is reported, it…

Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the…

Residents of Claremont, in the west of the city, have little faith in what they call mayor Dada Morero’s ‘empty promises’

Bulk water supplier Rand Water warned that its systems were ‘dropping fast’ because of extremely high consumption

Extracting too much water from the Vaal River system will result in a worse crisis

Rand Water, Johannesburg Water and the department of water and sanitation are to meet civil society groups on Saturday

Water outages have left many communities with dry spells since August as the city struggles with prolonged recovery periods of Rand Water and Johannesburg Water supply systems

Gauteng water users need to use water ‘more carefully and efficiently’, says water expert

The reasons change and the blame game goes on while people struggle with severe water shortages

Densification and population growth driving water demand, the entity says

Rand Water says the shutdown was successfully completed

Recovery could take five to 14 days, advises Johannesburg Water

Ratepayers have warned Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda of legal action if the problem is not resolved

Robertsham residents have been hit by water shortages while Joburg Water and Rand Water blame each other and point fingers at Eskom

It’s a ‘huge concern because how are we going to cope with a real drought’

Another says the outages are a wake-up call for how water is managed in the country’s economic hub

The supply of water in numerous municipalities around the country are has been affected by the rolling blackouts