Cape Town’s Granger Bay, Hout Bay and Dido Bay may soon be home to three proposed new desalination plants that the city intends commissioning to make extra drinking water for its residents and visitors, according to tender documents issued this week.

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The worst rainfall in the Cederberg Mountains in more that half a century has forced organizers of the popular Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show to cancel the annual event.

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EnviroServe CEO Dean Thompson and four other officials from the waste management company are now personally facing criminal charges relating to allegations that their Hillcrest landfill site is causing noxious “big stink” in the area, west of Durban.

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Four people were injured after a pedestrian bridge on the N3 highway in Germiston collapsed, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Wednesday. The incident happened in the early hours of the morning

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Dubai-headquartered specialist waste management multinational Averda has made several investments in its South African operations after it won medical waste management contracts in the Western Cape and Gauteng.

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Paris – Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by next week, said a report Tuesday.  Earth Overshoot Day will arrive on August 2 this year, according to environmental groups WWF and Global Footprint Network. This is a day earlier that in 2016.

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A thick pall of smoke from the northern dumping grounds in Bloemfontein is causing respiratory problems tor the people and animals. S. Pretorius, the Democratic Alliance councilor in whose ward the dumping ground fall, said the fire broke out on Sunday evening, 30 July. By 12:00 on Monday morning it was still burning,

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The drinking water of three municipalities in South Africa have failed to meet the national standards of quality drinking, while 59 failed to meet the set quality standards for sewage systems, civil rights organisation AfriForum said on Tuesday.

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The water near the base of Niagara Falls turned an alarming shade of black before tourists eyes following a foul-smelling discharge from a wastewater treatment plant. The water board for the city of Niagara Falls, New York, says Saturday’s discharge was part of routine maintenance of one of its basins.

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Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molwea, welcomed the approval of the Garden Route as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) biosphere reserve.

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