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Water Treatment In South Africa – The Unseen Crisis In Our Taps That Demands Urgent, Scalable Action

By Robert Erasmus, Managing Director at Sanitech South Africa’s water crisis is no longer looming. It is already here. Ageing infrastructure, rising pollution levels and increasing demand are converging to create a national emergency. Clean, safe water is critical not just for public health but for economic development and social stability. To move forward, water […]

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Close To 4,000 Community Members At Makoko Village Enjoy Access To Clean Water For The First Time, Thanks To Innovation: Africa & Mdluli Safari Lodge

Over 3,800 community members of the Makoko Village in Mpumalanga now join the millions of people across Africa whose lives have been transformed by the installation of Innovation: Africa’s solar water pumping systems. The recently completed water project, sponsored by Mdluli Safari Lodge, includes a borehole drilled to more than 80 metres that yields over […]

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Commerzbank And Investec Jointly Arrange Financing To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Two Million People In Rural Cote d’Ivoire

Investec and Commerzbank, in collaboration with Swiss Export Risk Insurance and Atradius Dutch State Business, have concluded a loan agreement with Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Economy and Finance to develop and rehabilitate essential water supply infrastructure across up to 111 locations, enhancing access to potable water in these areas. In the build-up to World Water Day […]

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IBM Launches RFP To Help Accelerate Global Water Management Solutions For Vulnerable Populations

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it is accepting proposals for thenext cohort of the IBM Sustainability Accelerator, which will focus on water management solutions. This program applies IBM technologies, such as hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, and an ecosystem of experts to enhance and scale projects focused on populations vulnerable to environmental threats. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over […]

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Metaverse Helps Bring Water To Africa

Africarare, Africa’s First Metaverse and Innovation Africa partner to bring clean water to Africa In a historic move, Africarare, Africa’s first metaverse, has joined forces with non-profit organisation Innovation Africa to help deliver clean drinking water to people across the continent. The partnership seeks to empower rural communities by providing access to clean water and light, using Israeli solar, […]

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The Role of Sustainable Water Technologies in Achieving Water Security in Africa

Did you know on the continent, 418 million people still lack even a basic level of drinking water service, 779 million lack basic sanitation services (including 208 million who still practice open defecation) and 839 million still lack basic hygiene services? How can this be changed to have clean water and sanitation for everybody?  Access to […]

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Clean Water, Decent Toilets, Hygiene Challenge For Southern African Community

By Charles Mpaka The toilets in the maternity wing of Namatapa Health Centre in the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, fell into disrepair a few years ago. So, pregnant women who come to deliver their babies and their guardians use two pit latrines. The faulty facilities also serve as bathrooms. Visiting the bathrooms […]

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