Tag: Water
Cape Town wants to hike water tariffs by 27%
Cape Town’s executive mayor Patricia de Lille has called for a massive increase in water tariffs across the city.
Presenting the city’s budget speech on...
Cape Town water consumption drops by 43 million litres
Capetonians have managed to get water usage down to 522 million litres per day over the past week - 43 million litres less than...
R6bn set aside for drought ‘disaster’
Agriculture sector lobby groups have welcomed the declaration of drought as a national state of disaster and said they expected farmers to benefit from...
South Africa to investigate water ministry amid severe drought
South Africa's parliament will conduct an inquiry into allegations of mismanagement at the water ministry, a senior lawmaker said on Friday, as the country's...
Capetonian develops App to help water crisis
As preparations for Day Zero continue, a Mitchell’s Plain resident has developed an application which will provide accurate information related to the water crisis.
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Zille welcomes probe into water ministry
The Western Cape Government has welcomed the announcement of a parliamentary inquiry into the finances of what it calls the bankrupt Department of Water...
Cape Town businesses aim to be free of municipal water supply
What businesses in Cape Town previously considered to be “difficult and hard” to achieve in terms of water savings has “gone out the window”,...
W Cape gets even tougher on enforcing water restriction laws
The Department of Water and Sanitation in the Western Cape is rolling out phase two of the enforcement and monitoring blitz as part of...
Koeberg nuclear power station launches a water desalination plant
The Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station situated in Cape Town has today launched a mobile groundwater desalination plant, which will take care of the station’s...
Tapping alternative water solutions
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