After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River.

Low water levels after a drought and heatwave are stopping cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine river in ...

Can a single policy shift reverse decades of partnership, threaten already vulnerable species, and reopen old sores ...

Service delivery challenges in the Northern Cape have seen the Human Rights Commission (HRC) holding a two-day engagement in ...

BLOEMHOF - At least eight sluice gates remain open at the Vaal Dam. Last week, 10 sluice gates were opened as part of maintaining the water level at the dam, which surpassed 100 percent.

The 100 km-long Klip River in Gauteng, a vital water source feeding into the Vaal River System, has reached critical pollution levels. The pollution levels are so high that they seriously threaten ...

Today, all of Johannesburg’s treated water comes from the 320km² Vaal Dam, which is fed by a network of rivers and dams called the Integrated Vaal River System, which includes two inter-basin ...

To solve the problem, the government looked to the waters of the distant Vaal River, completing an impoundment called the Vaal Barrage in 1923 and the much larger Vaal dam in 1938.

Tourism businesses situated near the Vaal River in the Free State and nearby areas might have to close if the government does not find a permanent solution to the sewage spillage problem in the ...

Leslie Hoy, the Vaal River project manager, expressed his team’s delight at reducing the coverage of water lettuce and water hyacinth—previously a significant problem affecting the entire Vaal ...

The problem is that this plant is classified as an invasive species and for good reason. Once the plant takes root in a lake or slow moving river, it’s nearly impossible to remove.

A number of businesses and homes along parts of the Vaal River were affected by water lettuce. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News In that time, approximately 139 hectares of life ...