Due to good rainfall recently, the department of water and sanitation says it will increase water outflows at the Vaal and ...

On 28 October 2024, the Vaal Dam was at 34.77%, in 2023 at 74.90%, and in 2022 at 89.90% — its lowest level for that year. The dam also recorded critically low levels of 28.60% in 2020 and 26.83% in ...

The SA Weather Service has issued a level 6 warning for severe thunderstorms over northern Gauteng and western Limpopo, with ...

Massive downpours of rain were recorded over the past week across the interior parts of the country in what is the start of ...

Authorities have opened a fifth sluice gate at the Vaal Dam as inflows surge at an alarming rate. The rising water levels have prompted urgent warnings for low-lying communities, with the risk of ...

A fifth sluice gate was opened on Sunday at the Vaal Dam to manage water levels, which have increased overnight as a result of the ongoing rainfall in the Vaal River catchment. This is in about 24 ...

"We have water left and right. We see it on its way to Johannesburg but nobody in this whole place has access to it. Most get their water from a few old community boreholes. Children will go there and ...

It is well known that Johannesburg receives most of its potable water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, via the Vaal dam, but there is another equally voluminous inter-basin water transfer ...