The Water and Sanitation Department has called on Gauteng consumers to significantly cut back on their water usage due to a two month planned shutdown of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project tunnel system. The tunnel will be shut for inspection and maintenance.
Landfills create leachate, a liquid that seeps from waste, which is highly hazardous and can contaminate groundwater. SRK Consulting, an international consulting firm that offers technical services to the natural resource industries, maintains that...
Changes in land-use in urban areas are raising the risk of flooding, making it vital for stormwater to be managed in an integrated way, argues Dennis Mulaudzi, hydrologist at SRK Consulting (South Africa). “One of the primary concerns in stormwater...
“Every issue we face, water is at the heart of it,” says Deputy Minister for Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo. Water is the most basic and fundamental human right, underpinning the right life, and access to it is no longer a question of ‘how,’...