Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina previously assured that the Vaal Dam’s sluice gates are up to standard. She said the department would warn communities nearby if water needed to be ...

Cup runneth over: Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, recently reassured the public the Vaal Dam's sluice gates are working. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is ...

Neither dam has opened their sluice gates. “The DWS continues to monitor the hydrological monitoring and forecasting systems in the Vaal river system and if inflows increase, and should the need ...

LONDON (Reuters) - With tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil's worst environmental disaster - the 2015 Mariana dam collapse - demanded justice for their loved ones on ...

The pond was formed by a dam on the Mill River that has in some form or another been altering the water’s flow since the mid-1700s. On this day, a sluice gate has been opened at the side of the dam to ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), this morning began the process of releasing water from the country’s reserves at Sterkfontein Dam into the Vaal Dam. The release is necessitated by the ...

The project will entail a cost of around Rs 884 crore. The length of the proposed additional spillway dam will be 91 metres with five sluice gates. The new spillway channel will originate from ...

In Gauteng, excessive demand from municipalities has resulted in Rand Water every year since 2018 exceeding the amount it is licensed to abstract annually from the Vaal Dam. In 2023/24 alone, Rand ...

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