Ferrial Adam
Ferrial Adam is the executive manager of WaterCAN, a nonprofit organization focused on water rights and management in South Africa. She has been vocal about the ongoing water crisis in Johannesburg, emphasizing the need for improved infrastructure and communication from city officials and water utilities. Adam has criticized the local government's handling of water supply issues, calling for transparency and accountability to address the systemic failures that have led to severe water shortages affecting residents.
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Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN, highlighting the failures of the water system in Johannesburg.
Residents ‘angry and exhausted’ as Joburg’s water outages drag on – The Mail & Guardian
South Africa· 2026-02-04
Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN, emphasizing the ongoing water crisis in South Africa.
Unsafe water found in taps, water storage tanks across South Africa, citizen tests reveal – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-12-18
Ferrial Adam warned that fines alone will not resolve a crisis rooted in human decisions, negligence and poor governance.
Mpumalanga municipality slapped with record R650m penalty for years of raw sewage spills – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-11-21
Ferrial Adam, the executive director of the Water Community Action Network, was a civil society activist at the seminar.
Tunisia and South Africa hold seminar on water management – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-07-03
Ferrial Adam, the director of the organisation WaterCAN, who worked with Goedverwacht’s residents in 2023, says people have been paying the church for water for years but the money is not going to the Berg River municipality as it should.
Moravian Church legal battle at heart of indigenous land rights – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-06-29
Ferrial Adam, the executive director of WaterCAN, said the results showed the importance of monitoring water tanks at schools.
School sampling tests find storage tanks contain unsafe water – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-06-25
Dr Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN.
Environmental injustice is becoming the new normal – we must resist it – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-06-05Dr Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN.
Environmental injustice is becoming the new normal – we must resist it – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-06-04Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN, a civil society organisation on water rights.
Special Investigating Unit’s anti-corruption forum to tackle South Africa’s water sector scandals – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-05-26
Ferrial Adam is the executive director of WaterCAN.
Solar and water tank adopters are forcing government to adapt or die – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-03-16
Ferrial Adam is the executive manager of WaterCAN who criticized the management of water supply in Johannesburg.
Johannesburg high court shut due to severe water shortage – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-02-13