The extremely high level of failure of the country’s various water service authorities and water service providers to supply the national water department with timely data on the state of their water resources is precisely the type of inaction that will lead to water-borne disease outbreaks b...

WaterCAN has found that water from three of four taps tested in Hammanskraal is not safe to drink. This includes a tap at one of the tanker filling up points. WaterCAN has provided the City of Tshwane with these test results. 

WaterCAN, an initiative of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA),...

South Africa has seen an alarming increase in cholera cases over the past few months, with 10 confirmed cases so far. However, given the state of our rivers and streams, it is likely that many cases go undiagnosed or untreated. 

Water activist group, WaterCAN, has called for urgent action to avo...

WaterCAN, an initiative of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), and Durban-based non-profit Adopt-a-River have written to the eThekwini Municipality to immediately address the dangerously high levels of E-coli in the Umbilo River. 

Over the past few months, WaterCAN has tested the quality of water in the Umbilo River in eThekwini and the Klein Jukskei River in Johannesburg, and found critical levels of E.coli from sewage in both. The International Day of Action For Rivers on 14 March focuses on saving, celebrating and creating...

WaterCAN and the Johannesburg Water Crisis Committee (JWCC) believe that the City of Johannesburg’s water entity, Johannesburg Water, is not addressing the water crisis with the urgency it requires and is not keeping the public informed. WaterCAN is an initiative of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abus...