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‘Broken wastewater treatment works can compromise quality of water’
The Water and Sanitation Department says it wouldn’t meet its mandate if it doesn’t take steps to fix broken waste management infrastructure in Tshwane.
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Water Dept approaches court over Tshwane waste management
It says if the metro fails to fix broken infrastructure, this can have a direct impact on the delivery of safe and drinkable water to the affected communities.
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DWS urges South Africans to conserve water as dam levels drop
The Water and Sanitation Department says dam levels across the country have been dropping at an alarming rate, but the figures are still better compared to last year this time.
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50 Giyani villages still without clean water after failed R3b water project
EWN revealed on Wednesday that the costly Giyani Bulk water project, which was meant to supply 55 villages in the area with water, is now in limbo.
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R3bn Giyani water project in limbo, 50 villages still without clean water
The project, whose costs ballooned to over R3 billion from just over R500 million, was launched by former President Jacob Zuma in 2014 with the aim of addressing water shortages in Giyani.
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Parly meeting into corruption, wrongdoing at Water Dept goes behind closed doors
The committee is to hear from the Special Investigating Unit and the Hawks about their probes, as well as from the National Prosecuting Authority on criminal proceedings.
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DWS paid out R31.5m in bonuses in spite of shaky finances, MPs hear
The decision has been questioned in Parliament, where the office of the Auditor-General has been briefing the water and sanitation oversight committee.
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DWS says failure to pay construction firm nothing to do with financial woes
Eyewitness News understands that nearly 500 workers were recently retrenched by engineering company Khato Civils due to government’s non-payment.
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Water & Sanitation Dept gets another qualified audit
The department's annual report reflects a continuing inability to curb unauthorised and irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure and a failure to act against the officials responsible.
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Gugile Nkwinti welcomes inquiry into Water & Sanitation Dept
The new Water and Sanitation minister has inherited a department that is in a financial and administrative shamble.
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[EXCLUSIVE] Dididi community dealing with day zero despite overflowing dam
Eyewitness News visited the Dididi Village outside Thohoyandou where residents say they have been without potable water for at least four months now, even though levels at the nearby Nandoni Dam currently stand at 104%.
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Water & Sanitation Dept says doing everything to help with WC drought
Department of Water and Sanitation spokesperson Sputnik Ratau says the department has started drilling for water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer.
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Water Dept: Day Zero not a concept we base interventions on
Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has said merely pumping money into water projects will not solve the problem.
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City of CT consulting national govt to increase authority over borehole use
If you have a borehole, the city can't tell you what to do with the water it pumps, but the national Water and Sanitation Department can.
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Top 3 defaulting municipalities make payment arrangements
Matjhabeng Local Municipality in the Free State is on top of the list with R1.8 billion.
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Defaulting municipalities given 2 months to pay bills or face water cuts
The Water and Sanitation Department says its owed R10.7 billion by the defaulting municipalities.
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Gauteng residents urged to use water sparingly
Forecasters say there will be some rain during the spring and summer seasons but that sufficient rain will only start falling from the end of next January.
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Slight improvement in WC dam levels 'not enough’
The Western Cape has been the hardest hit by the drought.
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Treasury: Water Dept has unpaid bills of more than R1bn
Treasury official Ulrike Britton also highlighted discrepancies between budgets and planning.
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Sinking it! Mokonyane's department owes contractors over R1.5 billion
Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has been summoned to an urgent Parliamentary committee meeting.
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The water flows: Dam levels up in 7 provinces, down in W. Cape, North West
The Water & Sanitation Ministry says average dam levels have increased slightly week-on-week and are up by 0.5%to 73.5%. Last year levels were at 54.9% over the same period.
