As President Cyril Ramaphosa prepared to present his State of the Nation address (Sona) on Thursday, his second in the government of national unity (GNU), residents of some suburbs across Joburg were protesting about the lack of water. The crisis has left no one untouched. Businesses, forced to shut their doors as the crisis deepens, […]
From Melville to Midrand, Johannesburg residents are bearing the social and economic costs of prolonged water outages, with WaterCAN calling for transparent daily briefings and direct public communication from authorities
Scientists tested South Africa’s water. What they found was alarming: E. coli, sewage pollution and unsafe drinking water reaching directly into homes
Residents, civil society groups and business leaders call for immediate action to fix the city’s collapsing water system
Of the 53 schools that uploaded valid data, 23 returned results showing the water was unsafe to drink
On World Environment Day, we must challenge – in word and deed – the assumption that environmental issues are somehow separate from daily life
Bulk water supplier Rand Water warned that its systems were ‘dropping fast’ because of extremely high consumption
More than 70% of the country’s neglected or aged wastewater treatment plants are not operating at optimal levels
The executive mayor blamed drought but water experts say the city’s reservoir levels are ‘leaking to critical thresholds’
Contingencies are in place for the maintenance shutdown, the water and sanitation department says
Mchunu has left big shoes that need to be filled, according to experts
In 2012 the municipality was ordered to fix Carolina’s water problems, but has still not done so
South Africans must learn to adapt, say experts, warning that the crisis will surpass load-shedding
The water shortage was caused by ‘an incident’ at the Eikenhof pump station, the bulk water supplier said
The water crisis has largely been caused by a power outage that affected the main pump station
The team ‘has to be in it for the long haul’ and the sewage in the water, which feeds the alien aquatic plants, must be dealt with
If allowed to pass the Vaal River Barrage, the plant has access to a journey of about 1 000km of the middle and lower Vaal river, the Bloemhof Dam and then into the Orange river
The minister is adamant the country is not experiencing a crisis, despite about half the water in our systems being unsafe for drinking
Extracting too much water from the Vaal River system will result in a worse crisis
Civic groups have started an online petition for immediate action from Rand Water, Johannesburg Water
Over the past year, Gauteng has witnessed a disturbing increase in water challenges, according to WaterCAN
A groundswell of citizens are saying ‘no more’ to the death of the province’s once pristine coastline
The City of Tshwane will allocate R450 million over the next three years to fix the dysfunctional Rooiwal plant, which is polluting water in the area
Three cases in Gauteng were imported or import-related from Malawi but the increasing number of locally acquired cases is raising concerns
Citizen activists have warned that the water situation in South Africa is ‘dire and precarious’
Criminal charges have been filed against the municipal managers of a number of towns for polluting the Vaal and Orange rivers
Raw water sources have high levels of E.Coli and coliform bacteria, posing serious health risks
The dam levels have been low for years, the canal transferring water from the Orange River Project to the storage dam was not repaired and the metro rejected help from the state
The Green Drop 2022 report, the first since 2013, reflects a serious deterioration in the management of wastewater treatment plants