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22 Aug 2024
Lesotho advances with sanitation coverage but faces wastewater management challenges
Access to sanitation in Lesotho has improved markedly over the past decade, while there have also been recent challenges in ensuring effective collection and treatment of wastewater. While access to sanitation has increased by some 48% during the past decade, an infrastructure update provided by the Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority (LEWA) reports remaining issues with wastewater collection and treatment...
23 Jan 2023
Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II to boost water supply to South Africa
With the awarding of major contracts, Lesotho and South Africa are satisfied that phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is now underway. The LHWP is a multi-phase international project between Lesotho and South Africa established through a treaty signed by the two countries in 1986. Phase I involved the construction of a 185-metre-high dam and augmenting South Africa’s freshwater supply by transferring water from the Maluti mountains into the Vaal River system through a 48 km long tunnel and a tail pond...
3 Jul 2021 Johannesburg, South Africa
Billion Dollar Investment For Lesotho Water Project
$1 Billion USD raised for Lesotho Highlands project will enable construction of dam cluster and 38km water transfer tunnel to supply South African cities. Phase 2 of 30-year, 5-phase agreement between Johannesburg and Gauteng significant to socio-economic prospects of both nations.