The MCLM appointed various service providers to resolve the water and sanitations in three key areas namely, water reticulation, installation of prepaid meters and sanitation.
South Africa is projecting a 17% water deficit by 2030, which is likely to be worsened by the impact of climate change. Our country needs to reduce its demand for water while increasing supply.
The Waste Management Flagship Programme (the Programme) is one of the eight ‘Near-term priority flagship programmes’ outlined in South Africa’s National Climate Change Response Policy.
The Redstone Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant is the largest renewable energy investment in South Africa to date and is on course to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2023.
In June 2021, the DBSA and the TCTA concluded two loan facility agreements spanning 20 years for implementing Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which forms part of South Africa’s Vaal River System (VRS).
This clean energy generation translates to powering roughly 120 000 South African homes and reducing carbon emissions by an estimated 600 000 tonnes annually