South Africa’s unsafe water supplies: licensing service providers won’t solve the issue
South Africa’s government has a new plan to license water providers and revoke the licences if they don’t deliver clean, ...
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Africa: Cholera and Mpox Cases Increasing Dangerously in DRC As Aid Cuts Push Health Systems to Near-Collapse
Press Release - Preventable diseases are sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Cholera cases increased by 326, ...
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Water war looms
The fact that 387-million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to essential drinking water in 2020 (up from 350-million in 2000) demonstrates the staggering scale of need. Moreover ...
From crisis to hope: how SA communities are solving water shortages
From KwaZulu-Natal to the Western Cape, South African communities are implementing innovative solutions to severe water ...
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The reuse of effluent for drinking ’is critical in combating global water crises’
Many countries allocate less than 0.5% of their annual budgets to water and sanitation, despite escalating crises of ...
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Hippo Roller for carrying water in Africa
An curved arrow pointing right. Two engineers from South Africa were designing a wheel barrel when they realized they could put water in the wheel. From that idea the Hippo Roller was born and is ...
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Even desert cities could pull drinking water from the air
a rapidly expanding settlement of over 100,000 people on the outskirts of the provincial capital Iquique. Nearly all drinking water in Alto Hospicio is trucked in from aquifer drill sites 70 or so ...
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Chemical compound found in Cape Town tap water: Is it safe to consume?
The City of Cape Town has said that an organic compound was recently found in its water supply. But is the tap water safe to ...