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The Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) on Monday confirmed that decant from the Central basin has affected water quality in Boksburg lake. The TCTA operates and maintains three acid mine... 

State-owned Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) on Monday said that ratings agency Moody has reaffirmed the positive outlook on TCTA’s water infrastructure projects, having moved from s stable to... 

A 17-year-old Grade 11 learner from Sintintile Secondary School, in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, took the top honours and was crowned the national winner of the 2026 South African Youth Water Prize... 

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) continues to advance national bulk water and national resource projects across South Africa. During her Budget Vote speech this month, Water and... 

Major milestones have been passed in the establishment of the South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency (SANWRIA), and the operationalisation of the new State-owned water agency... 

South Africa and Botswana are teaming up to monitor water quality and manage invasive aquatic species in the upper Limpopo river basin. Through a memorandum of agreement (MoA), the two countries... 

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) will embark on additional and more extensive stakeholder and public consultation and engagement on its proposed Draft Regulations for the Management and... 

In South Africa, the water utilities and systems are treated as stepchildren, by the various levels of government, affirmed Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions of South Africa (Awsisa)... 

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina’s 2026 Budget Vote is one of the “clearest and most significant” policy interventions undertaken to confront South Africa’s deepening water and... 

While South Africa’s raw water supply remains in balance with existing demand on a national scale, localised deficits remain – with municipal water services reliability declining sharply and water... 

In a landmark milestone, the Senqu bridge, the longest in Lesotho and a critical component of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II, has officially been inaugurated. The inauguration... 

Withok is DRDGOLD’s longer-term tailings storage facility initiative and forms part of the company's Ergo metallurgical plant's expansion plans.  

Water users are being urged to register or update their water use information as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen the management and protection of South Africa’s water resources. The... 

With a State-led long-term solution to treating acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Eastern and Central basins of the greater Witwatersrand Goldfields being provisionally deferred to 2040,...