‘We have a right to know what’s in our water’: South Africans urged to hold authorities accountable
The organisation also announced that its next national Water Testing Week will take place from 14 to 18 September 2026, encouraging members of the public to participate in citizen science initiatives aimed at monitoring water quality across the country.
A key part of WaterCAN’s work is its Map My Water platform, a public citizen science database that allows residents to upload water quality test results in real time.
The platform now contains nearly 3 000 citizen-generated water quality tests, making it one of South Africa’s largest independent and publicly accessible community water quality databases.
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