"Climate change leads to rising temperatures and alters rainfall patterns, affecting the availability of water. We show that for women in households without running water, the time spent collecting ...

Across many cities and towns in South Africa, turning on a tap no longer guarantees water. Instead, trucks – known as water tankers – arrive to deliver water to communities facing shortages. Water ...

The IAEA technical cooperation (TC) programme is implementing a series of large-scale TC projects on water resource assessment and management in Africa. The projects aim to support the rational and ...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing at 2.7% per year and is expected to reach two billion by the year 2050. The region’s urban population is growing even faster: it was at 533 million in 2023, ...

Researchers from Stellenbosch University collect water samples at a wastewater treatment facility in an urban centre in South Africa to investigate how antimicrobial resistance genes move through ...