Department spends billions on infrastructure, but communities still battle daily for water due to municipal ineptitude

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Municipalities remain the biggest blockage in the water and sanitation systems. WaterCAN welcomes the detai...

MTBPS 2024 underlines the need for municipal reform to get basic services delivered

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The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS 2024) illustrates how widespread and unmanaged government dysfunction affects delivery. This is one of the most illuminating sentences in the MTBPS, ...

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This opinion piece was written by Dr. Ogone Motlogeloa South Africa is confronting a severe crisis where climate change and declining water quality intersect, leading to a significant impact on public health and the environment. This crisis affects all facets of South African life, deman...

Gauteng consumers and municipalities should use water as though Day Zero is upon us, and get used to that as a way of life.

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The recent Rand Water announcement about the constraints in Gauteng’s water supply systems has not successfully raised awareness among residents about the urgent ne...

As Day Zero looms in Joburg, the news of the City’s 42 leaking reservoirs underlines the need for transparency

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The revelation that half of the City of Joburg’s water reservoirs leak and that the City plans to repair only half of those is shocking, but the release of this information is w...

South Africa’s next big crisis – this time with water – is here, and it will have a much bigger impact than our energy crisis. But citizen science activism can help turn it around. Dr Ferrial Adam, WaterCAN’s executive manager, explains how.

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The state of our water resources affects us al...

Reports of wilful and persistent sewage pollution by the City of Mogale reveal more than an environmental disaster; they highlight a human rights violation with the potential to cause a public health crisis. The...

WaterCAN, an initiative of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), is proud to announce its 3rd annual water testing month this September, in collaboration with the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens. This initiative is part of the ...

WaterCAN is deeply concerned about the ongoing water outages affecting the communities of Makhanda and eThekwini. These disruptions have caused significant inconvenience and hardship for residen...

The Blue Drop Report released in 2023 highlights the fact that at least 46% of drinking systems don’t comply with ...