Speaking at the IMESA Conference 2012 this morning, Naren Bhojaram, the president of Consulting Engineers South Africa, outlined how municipal engineers need to re-establish their profession within the challenging confines of the current sector....
The Accelerating Sustainable Water Services Delivery project was launched in March in Mbelu, Eastern Cape. InfrastructureNe.ws takes a look at the project that was a joint initiative. The main objective of the initiative, started under the...
The EIB supports the integrated bulk water supply to 5 million people around Durban. The project’s scale and technical challenges as well as diverse local concerns are being overcome to allow supply of clean water to be secured.
Three South African researchers in the water sector – Dr Inga Jacobs, Craig Sheridan and Dr Heidi Snyman– were recently honoured for their contributions to the sector at the Excellence in Water Research Awards at the CSIR Knowledge Commons in...
Aquatic scientists and managers can now rely on a new locally-developed local biotelemetry system to understand animal behaviour in water. For the last four years the Water Research Commission (WRC) has been funding a series of studies which have...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) was invited to participate in the Presidential Infrastructure Conference that took place last Friday. Infrastructure investment is a key priority of both the National Development Plan and the New Growth...
Click on the below link for the latest Weekly State of the Reservoirs report: https://infrastructurenews.co.za/3s-composition/uploads/2012/10/weekly1.pdf
An alarming 50% of the world’s wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare at a time of increasing water scarcity, a new report said on Tuesday. Wetlands serve as a source of drinking water and provide...
An earthquake that killed nine people in Spain in 2011 may have been triggered by decades of pumping water from a nearby natural underground reservoir, suggesting human activities played a role in moving Earth’s crust, scientists reported on...
