Water
Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500,000 people
People have to use their social grants to buy electricity to boil dirty water
By Steve Kretzmann and Chris Gilili
News | 22 September 2022
We want more toilets and better access to water, say Centurion shack dwellers
But City of Tshwane says it has already provided what it can with its budget
Brief | 21 September 2022
Sewage seeps into Vaal Dam as Mpumalanga water treatment plants fail
Gauteng drinking water could be threatened if crisis is not fixed
Feature | 9 September 2022
Ugu municipality defends its record on water
Negative publicity bad for tourism industry, says South Coast tourism body
By Benita Enoch
Brief | 5 September 2022
Government says Makhado water scheme will be finished next year. But residents have heard this before
The project is five years overdue while the water crisis in Louis Trichardt and surrounding villages is urgent
Brief | 1 September 2022
KZN south coast tourism threatened by water failures
Fed up Ugu residents say they are mustering to take legal action against the district municipality
By Benita Enoch
News | 29 August 2022
135 days without water: KZN community at breaking point
Municipal water has not been restored to Tongaat’s 40,000 residents since the April floods
By Benita Enoch
News | 24 August 2022
Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC
Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday
By Benita Enoch
News | 22 August 2022
Eastern Cape towns without water for two weeks
Striking workers at Amathole District Municipality say they are not to blame
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 August 2022