Topic: Water | GroundUp

Gangs make us pay for access to water, say Mamelodi residents

Municipality confirms illegal connections to the reservoir but blames people occupying nearby land

By Silver Sibiya

News | 1 February 2024

Water outages force Pietermaritzburg municipal offices to close

Several pipes burst in Msunduzi Municipality

By Joseph Bracken

Brief | 31 January 2024

DA calls for Parliamentary inquiry into eThekwini water crisis

“If eThekwini collapsed, so would Umngeni-Uthukela, threatening water security to the entire province of KwaZulu-Natal” says DA shadow minister

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

Brief | 31 January 2024

Durban families demand end to water crisis

EThekwini municipality promises that water will be restored to affected communities by 15 February

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 30 January 2024

Durban community without running water for four years

DA calls for Human Rights Commission to investigate ongoing water crisis in eThekwini

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 25 January 2024

Amatola Water misses deadline to fix Makhanda’s water woes yet again

Upgrades to water treatment works more than six years behind schedule. New deadline is April 2024.

By Loyiso Dyongman

News | 24 January 2024

Protesters bring Louis Trichardt to a standstill for one hour

Hundreds march demanding better services from government

By Bernard Chiguvare

Brief | 23 January 2024

New bill to try to enforce clean drinking water

Currently the Department of Water and Sanitation cannot directly intervene when municipalities fail to supply drinking water up to standard

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 18 January 2024

Taps have been dry in this Durban community for more than a decade

“My daughter was a year old when I last saw water coming out of our taps. She will be 14 next month,” says frustrated Bester resident

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

Brief | 16 January 2024

Nyanga families battle two-day water outage

City of Cape Town workers are on site to fix burst pipe

By Sandiso Phaliso

Brief | 9 January 2024

It’s Christmas without water for hundreds of families in Kariega

Municipality blames water shortage on vandalism of pump station last March

By Thamsanqa Mbovane

News | 22 December 2023

Picket against “water apartheid”

There’s enough water - the problem is allocation, says protester

By Ashraf Hendricks

Brief | 8 December 2023

Clean our “stinking” canal, demand Moeggesukkel shack dwellers

Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillor promises they will get water by Christmas and electricity in January

By Thamsanqa Mbovane

Brief | 29 November 2023

Limpopo villagers have to pray for rain or buy borehole water

Two villages in the Malamulele region don’t have access to clean running water, despite the municipality installing boreholes there.

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 14 November 2023

Almost a third of Limpopo residents have no access to piped water

Human Rights Commission report slams failure of water supply in Limpopo

By Steve Kretzmann and Bernard Chiguvare

News | 23 October 2023

It’s tough to be old and without water in Joburg

“I’ve fallen down carrying a bucket of water with no one here to help me”

By Silver Sibiya

News | 19 October 2023