Hundreds of different boats formed part of the Vaal River reopening launch. Photo: Sifiso Jimta. VANDERBIJLPARK – After months of battling a severe water lettuce contamination that threatened to ...

Can teensy-weensy nano-bubbles be the latest weapon in the escalating arms race to eliminate the invasive water lettuce which has almost taken over large sections of the Vaal River in Emfuleni?

Vigorous attempts are under way to remove the offending water lettuce from the Vaal River, typically driven by public anger, sometimes manifesting as industrial-scale action. But this will result in a ...

The water lettuce infestation along the Vaal River grew rapidly, negatively affecting whole ecosystemsn in the region. Picture Xanderleigh Dookey Mahakaza/Eyewitness News ...

In early February, AfriForum, together with several other organisations, businesses and community members, removed more than 1 623 tonnes of water lettuce from the Vaal River.

Rand Water on Thursday released the first batch of weevils and hoppers as biocontrol agents to start eliminating the invasive water lettuce in the Vaal river. The programme, which formed part of ...

The government’s formation of a technical task team to tackle the infestation of water lettuce in parts of the Vaal River is a welcome move but should not be a “once-off” intervention ...

Recently, water lettuce has invaded one of South Africa's most important rivers, the Vaal River, on the border of the Gauteng and Free State provinces.

The Vaal Barrage is now home to an invasive plant species that has had significant negative economic and environmental consequences for the region, and its rapid spread will not slow down without ...

This follows routine raw water sampling last month, indicating the presence of cholera along Schweizer-Reneke and the Barkley West caravan park sites - among others.

Leslie Hoy, the Vaal River project manager, expressed his team’s delight at reducing the coverage of water lettuce and water hyacinth—previously a significant problem affecting the entire Vaal ...

Water lettuce was first identified on a tributary to the Vaal River in 2021, but local conditions (floods and cold winters) appeared to have limited the spread of this plant.