by Harmke Immink, director at carbon advisory firm Promethium Carbon Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and emission reductions from the South African economy have been collected and reported in various forms and for various purposes since 2000. The...
Four African leaders are participating in this year’s G8 summit at Camp David on 19 May in a discussion session on accelerating progress towards food security in Africa. The statement signed by the White House spokesperson Jay Carney indicated that...
Many scientists using the eggs of wild birds to monitor pollution levels are failing to properly standardise their work, according to a study led by Roland Klein, a biogeographer at Trier University in Germany. Pollution-monitoring programmes often...
IMESA’s coffee table book, Reflections, was launched at last year’s conference to coincide with the institute’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. Last month IMIESA featured Part 2 of a series overview of the book. The book provides a comprehensive...
In an interview with Radio 702’s John Robbie this morning, Transport MMC for Johannesburg, Rehana Moosajee, stated that the City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) are in favour of public private partnerships to ensure...
A recent Water Research Commission study looking into municipal water tariffs of 15 South African municipalities reports that the primary driver of water service tariffs is the quest to balance tariff revenues with explicit financial costs. Given...
The Department of Water Affairs has released the results of their 2012 Blue Drop Results. This is fourth Blue Drop Report and it is remarkable to note the impact this programme has had on the water sector over the past four years. Debbie Besseling...
Heavy recent rains are flushing raw sewage into coastal waters, ruining the water quality at popular beaches around the UK just as the bathing season begins, according to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). As it publishes its 2012 Good Beach...
If you thought only Third World countries have water crises, a new documentary asks you to think again. Increasingly, problems are rising to the surface in the United States. Filmmaker Jessica Yu harnesses the celebrity power of actor Jack Black...
