This week’s Infrastructure News Round Up brings you all the major news making headlines in infrastructure, water and sanitation and waste management, in just 90 seconds.
In our headlines this week:
Energy ministry proposes 2500 megawatt nuclear power plant
Back to work for the construction industry, but it’s not business as usual
Study reveals litter still clogging up Cape Town beaches – despite lockdown
Working in the waste management sector can feel isolated. The landfill engineers talk to landfill engineers, the recyclers talk to recyclers, and so on. As the president of the IWMSA I get to see the many faces of the industry, and how it all comes...
South Africa’s waste sector stands at a crossroads. Years of analysis have confirmed what practitioners already know: The country’s solid waste management system is overburdened, underfunded, and misaligned with its sustainability ambitions, though...
Founded in 1903 amid Johannesburg’s early gold-rush chaos, Rand Water has spent more than a century proving that water, not gold, is South Africa’s most valuable resource. From pioneering bulk supply systems to leading today’s infrastructure...