Water

The Western Cape storm in pictures

Hundreds flee flooded homes as storms batter Western Cape

Man dies, apparently from electrocution

Cape Town’s long history of struggling for enough water

Science for the People seminar tells the story of the city’s water supply since 1650

Farmer seeks ‘pardon’ for illegally enlarging dam

The application raises concerns over water use in the Western Cape

Gauteng Premier promises a “realistic” plan for services in Slovo Park

The settlement has waited for over two decades to be upgraded despite a 2016 court ruling in residents’ favour

Canoeist brothers clean up Khayelitsha wetland

Hours spent every week removing invasive water hyacinth and rubbish

Madibeng protesters travel 60km to complain to mayor

They are demanding consistent and clean drinking water as well as electricity

Over 800 households near Durban without tap water for eight years

Water tanks are only filled twice a month and people have to fetch water from a river

Gauteng farming community without consistent water for three years

Ward councillor says only six water tankers are servicing all communities in Emfuleni municipality

Stalled Limpopo bulk water project leaves 100 homes without tap water

Community leaders say some households in Tshikota near Louis Trichardt have been without water for four years

Local municipality blames City of Tshwane for breaking water supply contract

The municipality has asked the SA Human Rights Commission to intervene a second time

Municipality in court for cutting off water to school with 500 learners

Judge orders Mogale City to immediately reinstate the water supply to Krugersdorp school

In photos: new hope for West Coast vlei after seven year drought

But the future of this West Coast jewel is not yet assured, despite record rains this year

Hundreds protest in Madibeng over water and electricity

The ward councillor took refuge in a house and refused to come out, fearing for his life.

End to Makhanda’s water woes delayed yet again

Amatola Water says it expects the water interruptions in Makhanda to end by 30 August

Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government

After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park