The LHWP is a key scheme that aims to address the ongoing water crisis in Gauteng, providing the province with much-needed water for domestic and industrial use, with the welfare of many affected communities hanging in the balance. In addition to the educational aspect of the display, visitors...
Rand Water, the government entity that supplies water to more than a dozen municipalities in Gauteng province, this week pleaded with residents to reduce their consumption. The interlinked reservoirs supplying its system are now at 30% capacity, and high demand on any of them affects them all. ...
California drought, Gauteng crisis raise questions about water usage In South AfricaThe extreme drought in California has Americans asking about how that state's water supply is allocated and used.Similarly, the fact that many in Gauteng were without water for weeks while Rand Water blamed power ...
In a Creamer Research Report, ‘South Africa’s Looming Crisis’, (published in October 2023), the following is said:“Water security is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, and this ongoing challenge is intensifying.” South Africa’s water custodian, the DWS, in its Annual Pe...
In the meantime, Thames Water’s customers can be sure of one thing: Bills will be going up.Read also:New ‘Water-shifting’ policy is govt admission of water supply systems failures – Anthony Turton Gauteng could face water crisis until 2029 due to project delays South African farmers ...
A total of 110 households were issued with questionnaires from the 4 selected communities namely: Makanda in the Eastern Cape, Bloemfontein in Free State, Pretoria in Gauteng and Cape Town in the Western Cape. The choice of this figure was to ensure precision and accuracy as this study seeks...
Maxwell and Stefan Kollet studied the response of a watershed in the southern Great Plains in Oklahoma using a groundwater/surface-water/land-surface model. The southern Great Plains are an important agricultural region that has experienced severe droughts during the past century including the “dust...
Recently, the North Gauteng High Court in an urgent application in the case of Federation for Sustainable Environment and Others, pronounced on the right of access to sufficient water enshrined in s27 of the Constitution. In doing so it also cursorily touched on the responsibility of local ...
By the mid-2000s Acid Mine Drainage had reached a crisis point in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, the centre of the gold mining industry in that country. This crisis was simply because some mining companies had abandoned mines without rehabilitating them underground, nor neutralising the ...
Lessons learnt from the present electricity crisis should be applied to ensure similar deficiencies are not experienced in the water sector, said Minister of Water Affairs & Forestry Lindiwe Hendricks. She was speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of...