The latest Green Drop report shows how the country’s rivers are being “turned into sewage channels”
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 improvements are marginal and non-revenue water losses remain high in multiple provinces, highlighting urgent need for municipal investment and reform
Without urgent remedial action, ‘further deterioration is likely to continue’
Residents have been urged to evacuate downstream of Senteeko Dam in Mpumalanga
SCORE: E With 105 of South Africa’s 144 municipal water service authorities classified as failing – representing nearly three-quarters of the country’s water governance structures – Majodina’s tenure faces critical scrutiny. Municipal debt to water boards has surged to R25 billion, threatening operational viability. Criminal networks — the “water mafia” — exploit illegal connections, extortion […]
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Department of water and sanitation urges those living within the floodline to move to safe areas
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The province is ‘not doing the right things’ to rescue itself from running out of water, Pemmy Majodina told parliament’s portfolio committee on water and sanitation
Contingencies are in place for the maintenance shutdown, the water and sanitation department says
This was achieved through a partnership involving the Vaal community, Rand Water, Rhodes University’s Centre for Biological Control, the water and sanitation department and the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment
New Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says she will work with municipalities that are in debt, diversify water supply to include desalination and introduce measures to reduce water use levels
The six-month period required to conduct maintenance is crucial to ‘avoid any catastrophic event’
The situation is frightening, says an anonymous source who used to work at the department of water and sanitation
Experts like civil engineers say it is not too late to save South Africa’s waterways from high levels of pollution
About 80% of the country’s dams are so enriched with nutrients they could produce toxic algal blooms
If allowed to pass the Vaal River Barrage, the plant has access to a journey of about 1 000km of the middle and lower Vaal river, the Bloemhof Dam and then into the Orange river
The blame game will only take us so far down the river
