African leaders have warned that poor access to clean water and sanitation is costing the continent billions of dollars annually while deepening poverty, disease, and inequality. Speaking at a ...

Imagine living in a country where there is no access to clean water. Unfortunately, this is still a significant issue in many African countries. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the ...

Water systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly in crisis. Growing populations and expanding economies are relentlessly driving rising demands. Like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, ...

People queue for water from a tanker after the town of Theunissen’s water systems failed for a week. Mlungisi Louw/Volksblad/Gallo Images/Getty Images South Africa’s water law says everyone has the ...

Africa's development ambitions will remain out of reach unless governments, businesses, and citizens work together to address the continent's water and sanitation challenges, says the Chairman of the ...

What you need to know: While the evening carried celebration, the conversations kept returning to one question: Is Africa being built for the next generation? Soft Ethiopian melodies drifted through ...

A functioning water pump in Malawi. Courtesy Michael Caterina. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, access to clean drinking water often depends on a simple technology: the handpump. These manually operated ...

Nigeria and the rest of Africa require between $45 billion and $50 billion annually to achieve universal access to clean water and sanitation under Sustainable Development Goal. Fresh data from the ...

Africa’s water systems are in crisis. From the Sahel to South Africa, 845 million people lack safely managed drinking water, and over 900 million do not have access to safely managed sanitation ...