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The publicly owned entity, formed in 2000, is an amalgamation of 38 municipalities who previously had little or no access to piped water or proper sanitation. Taking this responsibility in its stride, eThekwini Municipality has gone on to receive various certifications and recognitions as it continues to raise the standard of both drinking water and effluent sewage.

The attention of the global energy mix was placed on Nigeria’s thriving oil and gas industry on Monday in Houston Texas at an International Conference on Energy and Climate Policy organised by the James Baker Institute for Public Policy Rice University.

Economists from the African Development Bank (ADB) have become involved in a heated debate in which some advocate the continuation of state-funded recovery programmes, and others advocate taking strong action to reduce deficits and public spending.

Now estimated to be spewing up to 60,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf every day, the Deepwater Horizon spill is huge, but still relatively moderate compared to the leakage that has contaminated places like the Niger Delta and Ecuador's Amazon.