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Satellite images show a shimmering trail of dried, chemical-filled mud left behind by wastewater that flooded the town of ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that ...

After breaking the 50% capacity mark last week, the Vaal Dam water levels continue to rise. Heavy rainfall over recent weeks has continued to bolster South Africa’s water systems, with the ...

In 2022, a dam at the Jagersfontein diamond mine in South Africa burst, smothering almost 200 houses and killing three people. Tailings-dam disasters across Europe, the US and Asia have killed ...

The collapse of the Jagersfontein dam just over a week ago struck me as the perfect metaphor for South Africa. As we watch the country collapse around us with the wonderfully euphemistic ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is closely monitoring the Vaal Dam after the dam’s water levels drastically increased from last week’s 24.3% to 46.2% this week. According to the ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is closely monitoring the Vaal Dam after the dam’s water levels drastically increased from last week’s 24.3% to 46.2% this week. According to the ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct a date related to an official visit. We regret the error. On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on ...

While tailings dams are designed to be permanent, they have been known to fail catastrophically as in the recent cases of the Jagersfontein dam in South Africa in 2022, the Brumadinho dam in Brazil in ...