The true amount being spent on water usage is obscured by the fractured nature of its provision.
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.
DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane tried to deliver water to a community near Brakpan, but ANC residents chanted and booed him out of town.
New initiative empowers municipalities to keep track of and solve their water issues.
Water security is one of the most tangible social, political and economic challenges faced by communities across the globe today.
Mail & Guardian science editor Sarah Wild shares some exciting discoveries from around the world.
What solutions have decision-makers put forward to the twin challenges of water scarcity and persistent electricity crises, asks Shanaaz Nel.
The state claims 95% of people have access to water, but the water affairs department admits that only 65% have flowing water.
The Madibeng municipality seems reluctant to appoint a permanent water technicican, despite the area having pump problems since August.
Stunned Mothotlung residents suspect that dirty politics is to blame for the deaths of three people protesting against the township’s lack of water.
The water and environmental affairs minister has vowed to return running water to residents of Mothotlung by the end of the week.
The city has had to decommission its major supply dams as water levels fall to drastic levels.
A comment by Qondile Khedama, the general manager: communications for the Mangaung Metropolitan Municpality.
The Mangaung Municipality is committed to enhancing its metropolitan areas to drive economic development in the Free State province.
Comment by the deputy director general in the water affairs department and the department’s media liaison officer.
Readers share their opinions on terrorism and the Westgate massacre, school pupil neglect and the lack of water in villages.
Experts say that proposed changes to policy require extensive discussions about competing demands.
The department of water and environmental affairs is not holding back as it reviews its key positions regarding the national water policy.
Rhodes University was "again on the brink of closure" because the municipality had failed to provide water to the campus, says the vice-chancellor.
Sasol undertakes to promote water conservation and improve treatment technologies and the reuse of waste water in South Africa.
Despite concerns about SA’s future water supply, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa insists everyone will have enough.
SA needs to invest an estimated R670-billion in new water and sanitation infrastructure over the next decade, says Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa.
There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, says Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa.
An idea to harness hydropower from municipal water pipes has led to a legal standoff between Rand Water and a small power company.
Gauteng has lost 480-million kilolitres of water in the last financial year – enough to fill 192 000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The IDC helps BTC to position itself in a niche sector that is crucial to the country’s development.
A decade ago companies and government did not know about their water use. But scarcity has now forced them to work together.
AngloGold Ashanti has been charged with contaminating water and "ongoing pollution" in Stilfontein by the Federation for Sustainable Environment.
Fourteen environmental activists have been detained after protesting against electricity tariff increases and Eskom’s reliance on coal power.
For the 10% of South Africans that do not have access to piped water, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are life-threatening.
Water scientists say mankind may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.