The Vaal Dam is the primary feeder for Rand Water, which draws from the Sterkfontein Dam should the Vaal have a distinguished low capacity. Vaal Dam. Image: Department of Water and Sanitation The ...

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There is sufficient water for Johannesburg's needs despite fears around the maintenance shutdown of the supply from Lesotho. The Vaal Dam has half the water it had this time last year, but this is not ...

The dam is at 24.9% capacity, compared with 66.8% during the same period last year, according to the department of water and sanitation’s provincial state of dams report issued on 16 December. The ...

Task teams are being set up to monitor implementation of water restrictions while government prepares to begin releasing water from the Sterkfontein Dam into the Vaal‚ which services consumers in ...

South Africa is preparing to release water from a mountain reservoir to top up plunging levels at the main facility that supplies the country’s commercial hub of Gauteng and three of its biggest ...

Volumes of water are expected to be released from the Sterkfontein Dam today in an attempt to replenish the Vaal Dam, which is currently only 26% full, reports The Citizen. The Sterkfontein Dam is a ...

At midnight on 30 September, large gates were closed at two points along the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), marking the beginning of a six-month maintenance shutdown, the longest in its ...