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Rand Water to embark on 56-hour water supply disruption to divert pipeline
4th October 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Rand Water is preparing to implement a 56-hour project next week to divert its G20 pipeline to enable City Power to expand the Mondeor substation in Johannesburg. The diversion project will start... 


Image of City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation councillor Zahid Badroodien with community leader Mthuthuzeli Mhleli at the site handover in the Nyagatisa Informal Settlement in Macassar
City of Cape Town, WRC partner in sanitation pilot project
3rd October 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The City of Cape Town’s (CoCT’s) Water and Sanitation Directorate and the Water Research Commission (WRC) have partnered to implement a sanitation technology pilot project in five informal... 


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Technology can help the water utilities get ahead of deteriorating water delivery systems
3rd October 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Technology can play a significant role in empowering South Africa’s water utilities to get ahead of the curve and arrest the accessibility and quality decline brought about by increasingly ageing... 


DWS launches Vaal anti-pollution forum
1st October 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is preparing to launch a new forum aimed at mitigating the years-long pollution impacting the Vaal river’s water quality. The Vaal River Anti-Pollution... 


Lesotho Highlands Water Project tunnel set for six-month closure
30th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) tunnel is set to be closed on Tuesday for a period of six months for critical maintenance. The closure of the LHWP tunnel will affect the Phase I Water... 


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Chemical capture tech makes for better batteries
27th September 2024

Australian tertiary institution the University of Queensland (UQ) announced earlier this month that technology it has developed can remove harmful ‘forever chemicals’ from water so that they can be... 


Just Water Partnerships a viable mechanism to unlock water investments, says Majodina
26th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Just Water Partnerships (JWPs) initiative is a viable mechanism to enable investments in water resilience and sustainability in low- and middle-income countries and contribute to national... 


DWS needs workable plan to resolve debt to water boards – portfolio committee
18th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation has raised concern over the lack of tangible plans to resolve increasing debt owed to water boards by municipalities. To resolve this, it has... 


MTN modernisation increases network availability score, 5G network coverage
18th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Telecommunications group MTN South Africa has increased its network availability score to more than 98% as it modernises its network for resilience. More than 400 site have been modernised this... 


5 000 civil engineers ready to ensure safety standards of dams
17th September 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

AfriForum on Tuesday called on Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina to urgently work with more than 5 000 registered civil engineers who work in the South African water infrastructure... 


Harmony refurbishes three municipal wastewater treatment plants
10th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Harmony Gold has refurbished three municipal wastewater treatment plants on behalf of the Matjhabeng, Matlosana and Merafong municipalities and has implemented its own water treatment plants at... 


TIA launches nanobubble aquaponics pilot plant
9th September 2024 By: Schalk Burger

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and water treatment technology company Fine Bubble Technologies have launched a nanobubble aquaponics pilot plant at De Grendel School of Skills, in Cape... 


Valhalla Capital Partners, Finnish wastewater pioneer in JV
9th September 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

South Africa-based investment holding company Valhalla Capital Partners has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Finnish wastewater treatment technology pioneer EPSE. The JV, which also... 


Xylem SA receives ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems certification
6th September 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Water solutions company Xylem South Africa (Xylem SA) has been certificated according to the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards ISO 14001 and 45001 management systems,... 


Data, monitoring needed as water tariff increases threaten to become core business cost
5th September 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Beyond the challenges to water security presented by population growth, urbanisation, poor infrastructure and water treatment, companies must start measuring their water use throughout their... 


Failed Riversands dams not registered, licensed
30th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) plans to take action against the current and former owners of the dams that failed earlier in August, subsequently causing flooding that resulted in... 


Tzaneen Dam
New water infrastructure agency gets legislative green light
28th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to the South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency (NWRIA) Bill, unlocking the establishment of a new State-owned company responsible for... 


Immediate action needed to arrest municipal debt to water boards
28th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Urgent action is required to stop municipalities’ ever-increasing debt to water boards, the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation said on Wednesday. As at June 2024, the municipal debt to... 


Image of Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation Councillor Zahid Badroodien with project manager Anton Le Roux at the recently-installed Main Medium Voltage Incomer
Athlone Waste Water Treatment Works’ multibillion-rand upgrade on track
27th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The City of Cape Town’s R4-billion capital investment programme to upgrade the Athlone Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) is under way, with 25% of the first phase of the programme having been... 


Image of Polihali transfer tunnel intakes tunnels breakthrough on August 19
LHDA achieves critical milestone in Polihali tunnel construction
22nd August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

After seven months of tunnelling on the Polihali transfer tunnel construction site, the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has achieved the successful breakthrough of the upper intake... 


The manhole protector grid solution
Engineer invents manhole protector grid as an early warning system to prevent sewage spills
21st August 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Civil engineer Chris Nganga Kimaru has developed a manhole protector grid (MPG) solution that uses GSM and Sigfox-enabled Internet of Things sensors and gateways to continuously monitor sewage flow... 


DWS empties fourth Riverlands dam
19th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has emptied the fourth dam in Riverlands, in the Western Cape, by means of a side channel spillway to prevent a more catastrophic collapse of the dam... 


Water resilience guide for businesses launched in Cape Town
16th August 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

Western Cape provincial trade, investment and tourism promotion agency Wesgro and nonprofit green economy solutions facilitation company GreenCape have jointly launched the CEO Guide to Water... 


The Vaal dam
Department of Water and Sanitation owed more than R25bn
15th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Municipalities, companies and water boards collectively owe the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) Water Trading Entity more than R25-billion for water use. This emerged during a... 


Three farm dams collapse in South Africa, displacing hundreds
12th August 2024 By: Bloomberg

Three farm dams collapsed in South Africa’s Western Cape province, displacing hundreds of people, and the authorities are monitoring a fourth facility for potential failure. Retention walls on the... 


Cape Town’s R5bn budget set for water and sanitation investments
7th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate is preparing to deploy its Council-approved capital budget over the 2024/25 financial year. The city’s R18-billion water and sanitation... 


AfriForum gears up for yearly blue, green drop project
7th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Civil society organisation AfriForum has started its yearly programme to test South Africa’s water. Branches nationwide are testing the water quality of drinking water and water at wastewater... 


Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busisiwe Mavuso
South African firms seek water investments to avoid next crisis
7th August 2024 By: Bloomberg

South African corporates — which have partnered with the government to revive failing transport and energy networks — are in talks with the state to deal with water availability, which the head of... 


Public Works Minister welcomes completed work at Lower uMkhomazi water project
6th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson on Tuesday welcomed the work being done by Infrastructure South Africa to unblock the bureaucracy and red tape around Umgeni-Uthukela... 


Rand Water in recovery after successful maintenance project
6th August 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Water utility Rand Water on Tuesday said that its extensive, proactive infrastructure maintenance project has been successfully completed. The maintenance project was conducted from June 22 to July... 


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