South Africa is among the 30th most water-stressed countries in the world. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the country has been trapped in a series of multi-year droughts, ... Read more »
Typhoid fever and diarrhoea cases have fallen significantly in the capital city Kampala and the district of Kawempe, according to an African Development Bank report. Kawempe has ... Read more »
Recently, news reports revealed plans by a Canadian oil and gas company, ReconAfrica, to explore for oil and gas in some of Africa's most sensitive protected areas. These areas ... Read more »
Illegal gold panning in areas surrounding Bulawayo's supply dams has contributed to perennial water challenges, the city's authorities have said. The local authority had decreed a ... Read more »
Once referred to as the "Sunshine City" - not only because the sun shines on Harare most of the year, but because of its cleanliness and orderliness - Zimbabwe's capital city has ... Read more »
Despite many households still facing water shortages across the country, over 44% of water supplied within different networks is lost, according to recent statistics by Rwanda ... Read more »
Fourteen civil society organisations have joined forces to fight for access to clean drinking water across the country, but specifically in the Eastern Cape, as the outbreak of ... Read more »
Researchers from Ethiopia and the UK have verified the potential of a portable laboratory that fits into a suitcase and tests water samples to identify waterborne hazards in a ... Read more »
Lagos State's Water Regulatory Commission (LSWRC) announced that it has closed down a private water agency for falling short of quality standards for water production. This comes ... Read more »
A pilot project has found Covid-19 RNA signals in wastewater plants in Gauteng hotspots. Now it needs to be scaled up nationally as it could be a vital and cost-effective early ... Read more »
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