In their latest attempt to rid Hartbeespoort Dam of the mean green water hyacinth currently plaguing the dam, the South African Water and Sanitation department, along with Rhodes University’s ...

The plant is steadily taking over freshwater bodies in the northern region of South Africa, suffocating aquatic life, including on the Crocodile River and the Hartbeespoort Dam it flows into. The ...

The vastly pervasive hyacinth that has enthralled the once-open waters of the Hartbeespoort ... Dam is certainly intersectional with the challenges around water pollution in South Africa.

Hidden beneath it is South Africa's Hartbeespoort Dam near Johannesburg, an important source of irrigation for nearby farms and a popular recreation site. This is also the site of the pilot project to ...

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa’s Crocodile River.