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.
It is one of the most dangerous extreme sports on the planet and a fast-growing competitive sport. And local diver Hanli Prinsloo is addicted.
Using water flow to create energy has major potential benefits.
Recent research showed that the production of energy requires huge amounts of water, a side effect of electricity not often considered by consumers.
Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living.
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/ 11 November 2010
A Limpopo primary school sets up a contraption to capture water from fog.
For a decade the nine states in the Nile basin have been negotiating on how best to share and protect the river in a time of changing climates.
The shocking state of SA’s sewage plants was revealed in the long-awaited Green Drop Report released by Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.
More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday to mark World Water Day.
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/ 10 October 2009
Wearing a red clown nose, the Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil hosted an out-of-this-world performance event on Friday.
Polluted water, poor management of dams and deteriorating infrastructure could lead to a water crisis in South Africa, a researcher said on Friday.
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/ 13 January 2009
Tap water in Johannesburg is still safe to drink, contrary to hoax emails warning people otherwise, the city’s water utility said on Tuesday.
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/ 4 December 2008
Cabinet has approved plans to embark on R7,3-billion project to augment the Vaal river system, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 28 November 2008
According to a researcher from the CSIR, poor water quality threatens our health and may also derail economic growth.
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/ 27 November 2008
The suspension of water researcher Anthony Turton must be lifted immediately, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Thursday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Concerns over a water crisis in South Africa have reached an all-time high, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering said on Wednesday.
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/ 26 November 2008
The FXI has offered to assist suspended water researcher Dr Anthony Turton should he be summoned to a disciplinary hearing.
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/ 23 November 2008
Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm from Canada.
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/ 6 November 2008
South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a WWF report warns.
The number of villagers sickened by drinking water contaminated with arsenic in southern China has risen to 200, says the official Xinhua news agency.
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/ 9 September 2008
The Johannesburg High Court has granted the City of Johannesburg leave to appeal against its ruling on a pre-paid water system in Soweto.
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/ 4 September 2008
If water did absorb human emotions, as Masaru Emoto maintains, the coffee he was drinking would have had a tinge of impatience in it.
On the grey clay of an ancient lake bed on the edge of Australia’s outback, Guy Kingwill is at the frontier of a global rush to commercialise water.
Mauritius at present enjoys plentiful piped potable water from its 2 000mm average annual rainfall, but large amounts of water are wasted.
The Democratic Alliance says there is mounting public concern over the quality of tap water in South Africa.