Global engineering consultancy firm SMEC is among the small minority of firms in South Africa that boasts appropriate skills and expertise in the design and application of trenchless technology in water and sewer infrastructure projects. SMEC...
It is anticipated that in the hotter, wetter and drier South Africa of the future, many things will go wrong. Water sources will evaporate. Malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever will thrive. Extreme weather and malnutrition could potentially...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) received special recognition for funding and publication of the Wet‐Management Series, at the Annual National Wetland Awards, sponsored by Mondi. This prestigious event recognised outstanding contributions and...
Sasol and General Electric (GE) power and water have together developed new water technology that will clean waste water, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This new technology, known as Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor...
This week about 7 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a desalination facility at the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant but did not reach the sea. Workers accidentally disconnected a pipe to the facility and caused...
Plans to build a new desalination plant on the Gulf of Aqaba are moving forward. While critics argue that the US$1billion project, which aims to address a chronic water shortage and save the shrinking Dead Sea, is expensive and potentially...
The Barloworld Logistics’ 2014 supply chain foresight survey has gone live and hundreds of business executives in South Africa are expected to participate. Kate Stubbs Executive Head of Marketing at Barloworld Logistics says this is our eleventh...
Driver training is critical for every transport operator and Scania South Africa’s Dirk Kokemoer joined his colleague in Botswana to train six drivers from the Petrologistics Botswana and Choppies companies. Kokemoer has been working with Scania...
A stakeholder workshop in Komatipoort hosted by the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI), discussed the issues being experienced by users on the corridor with the introduction of the new customs procedures for goods in transit through...
Technology has empowered customers in such a way that they are now in charge of the business relationship – a fact that’s left many businesses playing catch-up. Companies and supply chains that fail to realise this risk losing customers if they...
