Environmental scientists are saying that sampling stools could be a faster and cheaper way to pinpoint where Covid-19 outbreaks are brewing, before scores of people become seriously ill. Anthony Turton, from the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State, says samples are taken from the inlet to wastewater works where raw sewage is mixed. He says sampling can be done on feeder lines from different suburbs.
Eskom and Rand Water completed Phase 1 of the planned infrastructure maintenance programme, which commenced on Friday, 29 May 2026 and concluded on Tuesday, 2 June 2026. During this phase, Eskom carried out planned maintenance on critical...
Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment to help meet United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals, according to a review published in Frontiers in Science in...
For a hundred years the solution was always the same: lay more pipes, build a bigger wastewater plant, pray it all behaves. On drawings it looks fantastic. On the ground it leaks, breaks and dumps waste into rivers and oceans every single day. Most...