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            <description><![CDATA[A power outage and power dip at State-owned power utility Eskom has disrupted operations at Rand Water’s Zuikerbosch and Lethabo pumping stations. A power outage occurred at about 09:45 on Monday and while it was restored shortly thereafter at about 11:20, water system recovery requires an additional four hours to reach full recovery after disruptions.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is embarking on a structured roll-out of a series of frameworks to strengthen the capacity of water service authorities (WSAs) to comply with regulatory requirements, improve the quality of retail water tariff proposals and enhance institutional performance monitoring across the water services sector. These include the Retail Water Tariff Proposal Framework, the Draft Implementation Guidelines for Section 10: Norms and Standards for Water Services Tariffs and the revised Institutional Performance Assessment Programme (IPAP) to WSAs and relevant stakeholders.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>South Africa, Zimbabwe in talks over $500m dam project</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa and Zimbabwe are discussing a $500-million dam project to supply water to an industrial hub near their border, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The proposed Thuli Moswa dam, to be built in Thuli in Zimbabwe, would have storage capacity of about 430-million cubic meters and could supply as much as 90-million cubic meters of water to the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in South Africa’s Limpopo province, according to the documents.]]></description>
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            <title>OMMP Stage 1 secures $200m New Development Bank loan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The New Development Bank (NDB) and National Treasury have signed a $200-million loan agreement to support Stage 1 of the Olifants Management Model Programme (OMMP), National Treasury announced on Friday. The financing strengthens the partnership between the South African government and the NDB in advancing the country’s sustainable infrastructure priorities.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Wayout, Swift ink first Botswana drinking water infrastructure contract</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wayout International has signed a contract with Sustainable Water, Irrigation and Farming Technologies (Swift) for the deployment of their first Wayout drinking water system in Botswana. The first system is planned for deployment in January 2027, supported by a 10-year water offtake agreement secured by Swift in Botswana, providing the long-term commercial foundation for the investment.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the increasing focus on infrastructure as South Africa seeks to arrest decay and lay the foundations for a return to growth, as well as the role of private sector participation and project preparation in delivering infrastructure.]]></description>
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            <title>Another urgent meeting over Rand Water energy woes as second power outage hits pumping operations</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A second power outage, this time impacting Rand Water’s Vereeniging water treatment plant, in the Emfuleni local municipality, led Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina and Deputy Minister David Mahlobo to convene another urgent meeting on Monday evening. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) aimed to obtain a detailed update on the recent electricity supply interruptions and their impact on Rand Water’s water supply systems, as well as identify solutions to the challenge that is resulting in intermittent water supply disruptions.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Imesa welcomes water plan, says professional registration of senior municipal officials central</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (Imesa) on Tuesday welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s National Water Action Plan (NWAP), which was published in July. However, the institute argues that professional accountability and utility-style water management is required, along with the professional registration of senior municipal officials.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>South Africa secures $1bn loan from NDB for reform of metro trading services – Treasury</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has signed a $1-billion loan agreement with development finance institution the New Development Bank to upgrade metropolitan municipal services infrastructure as part of the Metro Trading Services Reform Programme. The MTSR is a government-led reform programme aimed at improving the governance, financial sustainability and operational performance of municipal trading services in metropolitan municipalities, particularly in water and sanitation, electricity and energy and solid waste management. The financing supports a government-led, performance-based reform programme implemented through South Africa’s existing legal, fiscal and institutional framework.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Power outage disrupts pumping at Rand Water’s Vereeniging water treatment plant</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A total power outage on Sunday in the Emfuleni local municipality has disrupted pumping at Rand Water’s Vereeniging water treatment plant. The Vereeniging water treatment plant supplies the Eikenhof, Zwartkopjes and Vereeniging– Vanderbijlpark–Sasolburg (VVS) systems.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Two newly completed bridges, as part of LHWP II, set to open</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the construction of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II progresses, the newly completed Mabunyaneng and Khubelu bridges in the Mokhotlong district, in Lesotho, are set to be unveiled this week. This followed the completion of the 90-m-high Senqu bridge earlier this year.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Unpacking the National Water Action Plan amid lingering concerns over effectiveness</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s new National Water Action Plan (NWAP), developed and being implemented by the National Water Crisis Committee (Watercom), sets out several strategic interventions over the short, medium and long term aimed at addressing the root causes of the country’s long-standing water supply challenges. While longer-term reforms by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) have been under way over the past few years, the water crisis has reached a breaking point, requiring more urgent, strategic and coordinated national interventions to arrest and reverse the significant decline seen over more than a decade.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Joint working committee to probe solutions to Rand Water’s power supply issues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A joint working committee, led by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), will be established to identify solutions to ensure that Rand Water obtains a reliable electricity supply. This followed an urgently convened stakeholder meeting this week after the pumping operations of Rand Water’s Eikenhof Booster Station was impacted by a power outage on Tuesday.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Low water pressure or intermittent water supply is expected in the short term as a power outage impacted the pumping operations of Rand Water’s Eikenhof Booster Station. City Power reported a major power outage on Monday, triggered by an incident at the Fordsburg substation, affecting the Orlando switching station and resulting in widespread power loss.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Water utility Rand Water has assured that a cybersecurity incident has not affected the quality and supply of water. In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, the water utility said that it is responding to the incident.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Multilateral development bank the New Development Bank (NDB) and South Africa have signed two loan agreements to support the Limpopo Central Hospital and Magalies Bulk Water Supply Scheme projects, says National Treasury. The combined $405-million loans advance South Africa’s sustainable infrastructure priorities.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>DFFE testing for PHV, investigating new sardine mortality reports</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) says it is investigating new reports of sardines washing ashore and has secured samples to test for Pilchard herpesvirus (PHV). Isolated sightings of sardine mortality events were reported at Bakoven, in the Western Cape, and off Tsitsikamma, in the Eastern Cape. On August 27, there were widespread reports of sardines washing ashore around Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, and floating offshore and within the harbour.]]></description>
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            <title>Joburg completes environmental cleanup project to boost climate resilience</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The City of Johannesburg says it has completed a project to clean up its act, which included restoring the Jukskei river catchment, urban cleanup, planting trees and installing a continuous hydrological monitoring network. The aim was to integrate nature-based solutions to mitigate urban heat, reduce flood risks, support local livelihoods and protect biodiversity. The project focused on the inner city, Alexandra, Soweto and the Jukskei river catchment.]]></description>
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            <title>Joint venture overcomes high-altitude challenges constructing milestone Polihali bridges</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The practical completion of the Mabunyaneng and Khubelu bridges on July 31 marked an important milestone in the development of resilient transport infrastructure in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong district. Constructed by the Concor-Nthane Brothers M&K joint venture (CNBJV) for the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, the bridges provide permanent access along the national A1 highway, replacing the existing low-level river crossings that will be inundated by the future Polihali dam reservoir.]]></description>
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            <title>National Water Action Plan must prioritise technical skills, says Cesa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the release last month of the National Water Action Plan (NWAP) by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Consulting Engineers South Africa’s (Cesa) has warned that infrastructure investment and institutional reform will only deliver results if South Africa urgently closes the technical skills gap in its water and wastewater sector. In line with this, the organisation is calling on national and provincial governments, municipalities, water boards and the private sector partners implementing the NWAP to incorporate structured, ongoing technical training into all phases of the rollout, from the immediate stabilisation of failing systems to the long-term institutional reforms the National Water Crisis Committee (Watercom) has been mandated to drive.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[A major burst on the B4 Pipeline is affecting water supply to the Palmiet booster pumping station, Rand Water reported on Thursday. The burst pipe, which occurred at about 06:00 on Thursday, led to a reduction in pumping operations at the Palmiet station to 70% of normal capacity, which may impact water supply to the areas served by the station.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite the magnitude of the City of Johannesburg’s (CoJ’s) existing sewer and water network, infrastructure will need to double over the next ten years to meet the surge in demand, delegates heard at the Symposium on the Future of Water-Efficient Sanitation on Thursday. The two-day symposium is being hosted by the CoJ, together with the Department of Water and Sanitation, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the South Africa Local Government Association, the Water Partnerships Office, the Water Research Commission and Planact.]]></description>
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