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Emfuleni Local Municipality

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The Blue, Green and No Drop certification programmes are the department’s regulatory mechanisms to improve municipal drinking water quality, wastewater management, water conservation and demand management.
BLUE DROP REPORT

SA’s water crisis deepens: Nearly half of wastewater systems critical

The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water…

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
CHOLERA

Gauteng’s most vital resource irreparably damaged – SAHRC

Commission’s long-awaited report into Vaal sewage crisis finds widespread non-compliance by the government

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Foul: Pigs root in sludge in Emfuleni municipality. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

‘People the same as pigs’ in the Vaal

The water and sanitation department has taken over the clean-up project while sewage continues to pollute the Vaal River and Emfuleni municipality

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Many parts of the country are water stressed. This has been exacerbated by high temperatures, which has in turn led to the decline of dam levels.
COUNTRY

More than a third of South Africans without water – R90bn needed to fix this

The new national water strategy calls for R90-billion in spending by the bankrupt water department, and a big change in how water is managed

  • Thando Maeko
5 min read