Concor Civils, a Murray & Roberts Construction company, has begun earthworks on a contract awarded in May this year by Johannesburg Water to construct a new 20ML water reservoir and a 1.2ML water tower in Lanseria. The contract includes minor...
Due to the ongoing concern over future water scarcity in urban areas, Vela VKE (Part of the SMEC Group) was recently commissioned to assist a number of South African municipalities in implementing effective water demand management strategies, in...
The finals of Aqualibrium, the exciting SAICE-WRC Schools Water Schools Competition 2012 were held at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, Johannesburg, on 27 July 2012. This worthwhile competition never fails to excite the teams, spectators...
The international charity organisation, Water Aid, has opened its regional office in South Africa in an effort to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s neediest communities. Officially opened on Wednesday...
The Human Settlement Department has revealed that the North West government has failed to spend R57 million earmarked for sanitation, despite a dire shortage of toilets in that province. Addressing the portfolio committee on human settlements...
Harmony Gold, the world’s fifth-largest gold producer, is to appeal against a North Gauteng High Court ruling that it continue paying for pumping water from a West Rand mine it sold in 2008, CEO Graham Briggs told Business Day last Friday. An...
As competition for clean water grows, some of the world’s biggest companies have joined forces to create unprecedented maps of the precious resource. The Aqueduct Alliance, which allows users to create maps by combining hydrological data with...
The Mount Pleasant-based organisation, Water Our Thirsty World, has been quite busy over the last couple of months. Water Our Thirsty World is focused on delivering chlorination systems to countries that lie in the ’10/40 Window’, which...
More than 100 people in the Zimbabwean capital Harare and Chitungwiza, a dormitory town 35km southeast of the city, have contracted typhoid this month, and the dilapidated water and sanitation systems are again being blamed for another round of...
This timelapse film shows the construction of the Olympic and Paralympic village in east London for the 2012 Games. The village has 17,320 beds and provides each athlete with 16 square metres (170 sq ft) of floor space. After the Games, the village...
