A university materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even when it’s dark. This innovation, from the University of Texas at Arlington team, is an improvement over most...
In a bid to stem water wastage in the country, a group of Grade 10 learners from Mathari High School in Limpopo have developed a project which uses cellphones to control water usage. Through the Project Water Conversation, learners devised a method...
The eThekwini Municipality is extending its water rationing to uThongathi from Friday, 3 July 2015, to address the critical drought situation the Province of KwaZulu-Natal is currently facing. Water rationing has already been implemented in other...
In observance of World Ocean Day earlier last month, the following video discusses ocean acidification and climate change and what we can do to help. Source: XPRIZE Insights Source URL:...
The Rainbow Nation Recycling Club in Kini Bay just outside Port Elizabeth comprises a little buy-back centre and a swop shop, and brings hope to the Clarendon Marine community by supporting local children who bring in recyclable PET bottles on a...
Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the environmental health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development...
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies says advanced manufacturing can drive industrialisation and create sustainable jobs. Minister Rob Davies was speaking at the two-day Annual Manufacturing Indaba that started in Kempton Park this week....
It’s a truism that in South Africa, we have some of the most progressive legislation in the world but that those laws lack enforcement. Stakeholders from government, the private sector and NGO’s want to bridge this gap one of the biggest factors...
Cape Town has recently embarked on an illegal dumping clamped down in an effort to curb the R350-million spent annually on cleaning up the City. “This money could have been better spent on a new sports facility or on social welfare programmes, but...
The Platberg sewage pump station, which falls under the Mantsopa Local Municipality, has been non-operational for some time, resulting in reports of a sewage spill in the Ladybrand area. According to the Department of Water and Sanitation this is...
