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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Johannesburg, billed as Africa’s richest city because of its concentration of businesses and millionaires, needs R221-billion to catch up on maintenance and overdue upgrades across its collapsing...
Many issues have been raised over Rand Water’s five-week extensive maintenance programme, following which many residents across Gauteng were left without water for days and weeks. Some are still...
South Africa’s water sector faces many challenges, yet with recent unblocking of projects, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) hopes to accelerate the recovery and improvement of the...
While several municipalities across South Africa have battled to maintain consistent water services for citizens, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) said it cannot overtake and interfere...
The Johannesburg City Council this week approved the turnaround strategies for City Power Johannesburg and Johannesburg Water, as it aims to bolster essential municipal services across the city....
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