Water pumped from the Nile is the only option for 98% of the residents of South Sudan’s capital.
Ordinary South Africans are helping monitor water resources amid worsening shortages under citizen and school programmes.
Crops should be in the ground and white maize starting to germinate. But only half the national crop has been planted and less than that will survive.
Past experience has shown that the government will continue to permit industry such as mining that destroys water supplies.
Ten percent of municipalities’ water – half a billion cubic metres totalling R3-billion – is stolen.
Government has failed South Africa as political meddling, too little planning and a loss of skills leave the country beyond drought repair.
Rand Water, South Africa’s biggest water utility, has implemented water restrictions as the country’s drought continues to intensify.
Water scarcity is here and we need to act now, as this is more difficult to solve than the electricity crisis.
A series of disconnected events that officials termed a ‘Fukushima moment’ was behind the water chaos that plagued Gauteng in September.
Maybe it’s no surprise Gauteng has faced water shortages; there’s no top-level remuneration for preventing outages, yet there have been mystery hikes.
Mail & Guardian science editor Sarah Wild shares some exciting discoveries from around the world.
The Workers International Vanguard Party has warned of more protests if water and electricity – already paid for – is not restored in Madibeng.
Residents in several parts of the Madibeng municipality will march to the municipal offices to protest over a water shortage.
Following violent clashes over a water shortage in Mothotlung, another person has died after reportedly being shot in the head with live ammunition.
Following protests over a water shortage in Mothotlung, Agang SA says Jericho is the second community in the North West to be without water.
The Constitution guarantees access to free water, but residents must fork out for pricy boreholes, writes Sipho Kings.
There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, says Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa.
Bulawayo’s water woes are set to mount, with its city council indicating that it will be extending water restrictions from three days a week to four.
Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing.
The discovery of a giant aquifer beneath the country’s most populous region has been amazing news, writes John Grobler.
Carolina in Mpumalanga has become a test case for what is wrong with water governance in South Africa, writes Sipho Kings.
Rapidly depleting water supplies spell massive problems for SA unless enough money is raised to implement the solutions needed to prevent a crisis.
In the future nearly all the world’s major rivers are expected to come under increased pressure to provide water for farming and industry.
The green pitch at Port Elizabeth’s World Cup stadium has become an island in a sea of brown, exempt from water limits imposed due to a drought.
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A report by military experts says the adverse effects
of climate change will result in conflict over scarce
resources. Yolandi Groenewald reports.
The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue.
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/ 1 December 2008
Zimbabwe has cut water to Harare, state media reported on Monday, leaving most of the city dry as authorities struggle to contain a cholera outbreak.