Countries

Gauteng launches water data hub – residents can now keep track of shortages and repair issues

Craig Sheridan, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa is a water scarce country. In other words it has an... Read more

20 Sep

Countries

Municipality mum on investigation into company selling water illegally

An unmarked water truck being filled with free municipal water in Verulam for sale later. Archive photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko... Read more

18 Sep

Countries

Water supply challenges hit Charlotte Maxeke Hospital

Johannesburg — The Gauteng Health Department is aware of the water challenges currently experienced at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic... Read more

17 Sep

Countries

Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams

A young man who identified himself only as Mandira, said he walks 2km from the nearest stream, pushing three... Read more

11 Sep

Countries

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina and Deputy President Paul Mashatile went with a delegation to visit the... Read more

10 Sep

Countries

Water woes leave Joburg residents at wits’ end

Caren van Niekerk, who lives in Bertrams in Johannesburg, says for more than a year, water pressure in the... Read more

27 Aug

Countries

In these villages you must share water with pigs

Women wash clothes and even food in water from a farm dam. Photos: Tladi Moloi By Tladi Moloi Households... Read more

25 Aug

Countries

A Tunisian village’s fight for running water

Tunisia – In front of a small mosque in central Tunisia, women queue at one of their village’s last... Read more

10 Jul

Companies

Nigeria’s mountain streams are a haven for special creatures – they need protection

Emmanuel O. Akindele, Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria has many freshwater ecotourism attractions. Among them are the Ikogosi warm spring,... Read more

24 Jun

Countries

‘Tightrope’ walk for villagers fetching water

Residents of Richmond Farm in Ntuzuma B, north of Durban, have to walk on this pipeline to fetch water... Read more

4 Jun