Aurecon has moved up five places in the internationally recognised Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 150 Global Design Firms 2012 rankings to occupy the 37th position in the world. In addition, they group maintained its rankings as number four in...
The eleventh annual South Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MiW) Awards, presented by CEO Communications, took place at a dazzling gala event on 26 July 2012 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. The awards once again...
A whopping 30MW annually could be saved by cash-conscious South African municipalities should their water treatment plants decide to switch off Eskom and switch on the electricity-generating potential of methane-rich biogas. That’s according...
All roads will today lead to the Rietvlei Nature Reserve where the topic A clean and green city will be discussed with various stakeholders including environmental experts and activists as part of the Tshwane Growth and Development Strategy (GDS)...
It was with great interest that the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) has followed the Auditor General’s discussion on the state of the audits of local authorities in South Africa. The report is cross-cutting and has reference...
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Inc. $25 000 to develop a stewardship programme and conduct a large scale outreach campaign targeting communities with major populations that use the basin for commercial...
Seattle — Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an effort to develop “next-generation” toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t...
Water is indeed a necessity that sustains life and is universally used by all human beings. The lack of it poses a great risk to the survival of humans. The water crisis that has engulfed certain parts of Ghana, especially its capital, Accra, is...
More than 150 000 Kenyans, including teachers and students in six schools in three semi arid districts will benefit from a Sh71.3 million rain water harvesting grant from the African Development Bank. The grant, which has already been approved...
More than a million children die from diarrhoea-related illnesses in Africa every year and it’s public health issues like this that will be exercising the minds of delegates at a conference on sanitation to be held in Durban in December. The 12th...
