PRETORIA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- South Africa is a water-scarce country with its quality under threat, said Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu on Tuesday, World Water Day. He said South Africa is ranked the 30th driest country in the world, receiving summer rainfall from November t...
of water governance at local and global scale. We have asked nine experts in various sectors of water-related research to share their views on how water and sanitation science, technology and governance must evolve to meet the requirements of a healthier relationship between water and society. ...
Under the global development goals agreed to in 2015, government has pledged to provide access to clean water and sanitation for all by 2030. Speaking on behalf of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica), Piet Nel, project director for Tax Professional Development at Saica, ...
Within these circumstances, the Act allows the Minister of Water and Sanitation to issue certain regulations on how water services must be provided and gives mandate to the municipalities to supply water to the consumers. For effective management of drinking water and wastewater across South Africa,...
Despite being supplied so abundantly, Pretoria suffered the same problems with water supply and sanitation that were evident elsewhere in South Africa. This was due to deficiencies in municipal government. When the town was founded, it was managed by a magistrate, appointed by and reporting to ...
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Water Research Commission (WRC), Pretoria, South Africa Eiman Karar Rights and permissions Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/) which permits any noncommercial use, ...
A report published last year by the national department of water and sanitation is damning. Its monitoring of water usage by municipalities found that 40% of Johannesburg’s water is wasted through leaks, which includes burst pipes. In recent days, even residents of Johannesburg’s more aff...
Similarly, livestock water requirements were estimated using data on licensed stock watering wells from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). The total registered licensed volume for 14 licensed livestock watering wells was 109,724 m3/year (300 m3/day). In general, groundwater pumping for...
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