Residents of Melville and nearby suburbs will protest after 50 days without water across eight months. Local businesses and reservoirs remain under severe strain.
Words: Sean Christie / GroundUp If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? This philosophical cliché seemed to hover over the meeting...
South Africa has set aside over R156bn for water and sanitation, yet leaks, sewer spills and ageing plants persist from eThekwini to Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Rand Water will carry out a 12-hour maintenance shutdown across parts of Johannesburg on Friday, 17 July 2026, the utility confirmed. When the shutdown will happen...
Johannesburg Water has reported unforeseen technical challenges and the discovery of a second leak at the Witkoppen Road repair site in Paulshof, delaying emergency repairs and...
The High Court of South Africa has struck an urgent application by AfriForum NPC off the roll after finding the challenge to Johannesburg’s new water demand...
Johannesburg Water has warned residents of Dainfern Golf Estate, Dainfern Ridge and Dainfern Valley not to drink tap water after a major pipe burst and repair...
The City of Johannesburg has spent more than R650 million on water tankers over the past five years, but the identities of the companies receiving that...
Planned maintenance could affect taps across Gauteng Rand Water has warned Gauteng residents to prepare for possible water supply disruptions as planned maintenance on key bulk...
Jenny-Lee Bot, a landlord in Dainfern, Johannesburg, is at risk of liquidation after receiving a sequence of municipal water bills that now total more than R2.9-million....