A senior geologist is frustrated about the lack of urgency as rising levels of toxic acid mine drainage in Joburg’s Central Mining Basin place the future of Gold Reef City’s popular historic mine shaft in peril. At the current rate, the toxic water will have flooded the shaft by June. Professor Terence McCarthy, of the [...]

About 85% of water-intensive users among the JSE’s Top 100 companies are exposed to water-related risk, with 70% believing that their operations could be directly affected in the near term, a report revealed on Monday. However, most companies still needed to identify water risk in their supply chains and give higher priority to managing their [...]

Marseille – A failure to invest in water infrastructure is holding back the economies of many sub-Saharan countries, said African Ministers’ Council on Water (Amcow) executive secretary Bai-Mass Taal. “In sub-Saharan Africa, we are unable to convince them that giving money for water is an economic investment; that you will get your money back,” he [...]

The Department of Water Affairs’ emergency solution to the acid mine drainage crisis in Gauteng will leave the Vaal River so polluted that its water will not be fit for human consumption within two years. Emergency water treatment is already taking place on the West Rand, where millions of litres of polluted water are pouring [...]

Sydney – Australia’s climate is warming at an alarming rate and is set to become drier despite recent record floods, scientists said on Wednesday in a report that warns of increased drought and fiercer storms. The country has seen annual average daily temperatures rise by 0.9°C since 1911, with each decade since the 1950s warmer [...]

CAPE TOWN – South Africa on Tuesday called for international funding to help build a cross-border water project, which would benefit the country and Lesotho. “We’ve got countries coming forward and offering us technology. They’re saying they’d like to partner with us,” Deputy Water Affairs Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi said. Mabudafhasi said the country needed foreign [...]

Marseille – It is unacceptable that billions of people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday. Speaking at the opening of the sixth World Water Forum (WWF) in Marseille, he said the time had come for the international community to tackle the problem. [...]

Marseille – South Africa and Lesotho will show off their jointly-managed Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) at the world’s biggest gathering of water experts in Marseilles this week. The World Water Forum (WWF), held every three years, is set to get underway in France’s second-largest city on Monday. The event – expected to attract 25 [...]