CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE—Cape Town's beaches and waters are not as clean as the city claims. A study has shown that the city's water is contaminated despite the municipality classifying it under ...

Six months ago Cape Town was a city on edge. The mayor had declared that Day Zero, when officials would shut off water to most homes and businesses in order to preserve fast-shrinking reservoirs, was ...

The City of Cape Town's ambitious R5 billion desalination project, set to bolster the city's water supply, has drawn both ...

Cape Town has been in the news a lot over the past year — but sadly, for all the wrong reasons. The city is battling an unprecedented water crisis, thanks to a rare drought that has resulted in ...

an “alarming threat” of “widespread contamination at Cape Town’s blue flag beaches”. In an ENCA report (since deleted), the public was told that “water experts have proof [Cape Town ...

City of Cape Town refutes claims linking a Stormers rugby player's E. coli infection to Camps Bay beach, while experts call ...

Independent tests conducted by Project Blue have contradicted the City of Cape Town’s water quality results ... local authorities to address sewage contamination. The public’s voice has ...

The City of Cape Town can give the public the absolute assurance that any new water sources introduced to the supply system will 100% comply with safety standards for drinking water, including the ...

Contaminated water also puts residents at increased risk ... Without these resources in place, cities like Cape Town, South Africa could find themselves ill-equipped to deal with drought - and ...