With the announcement of a likely carbon tax to come into effect in the 2013/2014 tax year during this year’s Budget Speech, South African business has expressed concern and dissatisfaction. However, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan indicated that...
The upcoming Clean Power Africa conference to be held in Cape Town in September secured major coup with the internationally renowned renewable energy expert from Germany, Dr Christine Wörlen, to deliver the keynote address. The event’s primary goal...
In recognition of the role that the media plays in the industry, 3S Media received recognition for Publisher of the Year: Trade Publications at the prestigious CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards 2012. The awards are a platform to showcase the...
Local water engineering specialist SSI Engineers and Environmental Consultants relaunched itself as Royal HaskoningDHV at a glittering event last night, 21 August, at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The rebranding came about as the DHV Group...
WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre on 7th and 8th November 2012 to provide visitors with the latest information on regulations, standards, methods and...
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) has been fudging delivery figures relating to the Rural Households Infrastructure Grant (RHIG). This was revealed today in a presentation by the National Treasury to the Portfolio Committee on Human...
Mutare City Council is reportedly losing millions of dollars worth of treated water due to illegal connections and massive leakages because its piping system is now obsolete. Town clerk Obert Muzawazi told journalists last Friday the city was...
Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels. Professor Sosten Chiotha, an expert with...
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it: inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. With cutting-edge nanotech,...
