Watercan

06/06/2026

READ NOW: South Africa: Gauteng Water Crisis in the Spotlight

"The Gauteng water crisis is not simply a story about drought, bulk supply constraints, or too little water in the system," said Dr Ferrial Adam, executive director of WaterCAN

allAfrica.com

https://zurl.co/9MfDj

05/06/2026

🌍💧 World Environment Day | 5 June

Today, WaterCAN thanks every Water Warrior fighting for water justice in South Africa.

From testing water and reporting pollution to demanding accountability and organising communities, your work helps protect our rivers, our drinking water, our health and our future.

WaterCAN calls on everyone to:

🔎 Monitor and test your local water
📢 Report pollution and water service failures
🤝 Organise your community for accountability
🧪 Support citizen science and water justice

Every drop. Every voice. Every action matters.

https://zurl.co/Qf7nW

05/06/2026

Vital South African municipality has no idea where 70% of its water goes

Around 70% of the water that is supplied by the Emfuleni Municipality is unaccounted for, with the municipality having little idea about where this water goes or what it is used for.

This points to an effective collapse of the municipality’s water supply, something which a municipal manager told the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) it is unaware of.

The collapse of the water supply is coupled with other severe governance failures, which have resulted in sewage running in the streets and soaring crime levels.

Emfuleni is located within Gauteng at the heart of the Vaal Triangle and includes the vital cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging.

Daily Investor

https://zurl.co/RVgr9

Emfuleni Municipality, home to some of South Africa's most important heavy-industry assets, cannot account for 70% of its water supply.

04/06/2026

WATCH: What you are really paying for with Joburg's water hikes

According to WaterCAN’s Dr Ferrial Adams, the levy that households pay before using a drop of water will jump from R65.08 per month to R107.74 per month before tax

Enca
https://zurl.co/yqmZZ

According to WaterCAN’s Dr Ferrial Adams, the levy that households pay before using a drop of water will jump from R65.08 per month to R107.74 per month before tax.

04/06/2026

LISTEN | Water Tankers

“What we do not know is how often the tankers are cleaned, maintained, or monitored. We have, however, been told that protocols are now in place for the tankers contracted to Joburg Water.” - Dr Ferrial Adam

Times LIVE
https://zurl.co/5N1vy

Clean containers and avoid suspicious private suppliers, says WaterCAN

03/06/2026

Municipalities can't hide behind collapsing infrastructure & poor maintenance as an excuse for failing to provide water. Their responsibility is to manage these challenges properly & ensure residents receive the services they pay for.
SA Human Rights Commission Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG)

01/06/2026

WaterCAN and its partners are looking for a solution against water-related graft

A high-level anti-corruption forum convened by WaterCAN, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Water Integrity Network (WIN) has called for a significant strengthening of social accountability processes in the water and sanitation sectors, with civil society and business playing a far more active and sustained role in oversight, monitoring and consequence management.

The roundtable, held on 25 May 2026, brought together representatives from civil society organisations, academia and the business sector, alongside senior officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation, the SIU, the Auditor-General of South Africa, and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.

The forum was convened against a backdrop of deepening crisis in the water and sanitation sectors, where corruption, procurement irregularities, infrastructure failure, weak governance and institutional collapse are combining to deny millions of South Africans access to basic services, and the establishment of the Water Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (WSACF), intended to address these challenges through a ‘whole of society’ approach.

Find out more.

https://zurl.co/FjdLK

A high-level anti-corruption forum convened by WaterCAN, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Water Integrity Network (WIN) has called for a s

27/05/2026

The SA Human Rights Commission has confirmed that there a massive violation of human rights in Gauteng. The crisis is real. The crisis is real. The mafias are real. And we must stand together to find a solution.
SABC News

27/05/2026

LISTEN | Why you must be cautious when using truck water

Sowetan LIVE

https://zurl.co/qbtqd

Johannesburg residents in several areas are expected to face water disruptions as Rand Water undertakes major maintenance work between May 29 and June 2, and July 17.

26/05/2026

WATCH NOW: Water infrastructure sabotage is terrorism, says the SAHRC.

WaterCAN says it is outrageous that the SAHRC had to subpoena municipalities to attend hearings on South Africa’s water crisis.

SABC News

SA Human Rights Commission

https://zurl.co/i1RTX

This afternoon, Gauteng's water crisis faces intense scrutiny as the South African Human Rights Commission investigates whether collapsing infrastructure, re...