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Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has approved a temporary increase in water abstraction by Rand Water to stabilise Gauteng’s strained municipal water systems (DWS/X)
BLUE DROP

Water and sanitation department ramping up reforms, interventions to avoid water crisis

Of South Africa’s 144 water service authorities, 105 are performing ‘dismally’, according to Minister Pemmy Majodina

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read
Charles van der Merwe tests water quality in the Klipspruit River in Soweto. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CLEAN WATER

Act now to end South Africa’s water woes

There are a myriad causes – human and natural – for the crisis plaguing the country

  • Anja du Plessis
7 min read