As the months passed, the Vaal dam’s water level started decreasing at a rate of between 1.5% and 2% a week, with projections indicating that it would decline to 18% by December 23, 2024, owing ...

Residents living along the Vaal riverbanks are picking up the pieces of their lives. They have to deal with the river's high levels and possible flooding following the opening of 10 sluice gates at ...

Leeubos Dam, also with a 1.0% FSC was at 0.0%. It was also empty last year, at the same 0.0%. Seven out of 29 dams in Limpopo recorded capacities below 50%. Glen Alpine Dam stood at 0.6% this week ...

"Our dams are almost empty - please do whatever you can to save water!" Rand Water spokesperson Eddy Singo also told eNCA that current dam levels were at 49.64%. Last week, water levels at the dam, ...

Vaal Dam's recovery has been swift, with levels climbing from 80.22% on Sunday to 83.45% on Monday, then to 85.73% on Tuesday, and reaching 87.93% on Wednesday. As Vaal Dam water levels rise ...

“That’s how empty it was then. It was terrible ... I hope this dam never gets to that stage again.” Levels in the Vaal Dam, which recently dropped to a mere 26%, are now standing at 90% ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has urged people who reside within the floodline of the Vaal River downstream of the Vaal Dam and the Bloemhof Dam to evacuate and move safer areas.

People living along the banks of the Vaal River and in the flood plain have been advised to move as water is released from the Vaal Dam into the river. Water levels in the Vaal dam increased from ...

The Vaal Dam's third sluice gate has been reopened amid high inflows due to the continued heavy rainfall in the upper catchment. The third sluice gate was reopened on Wednesday at 4pm to manage ...

Johannesburg - Two roads near the Vaal dam were closed after it burst its banks on Friday, an official said. Upper Vaal area manager Marinus de Wilde said a bridge over the Klip River was flooded.

The body of the matric pupil who drowned during a family trip at the Vaal Dam has been recovered. According to various reports Reza Saloojee, 18, the head prefect at Greenside High, had apparently ...