The Constitutional Court recently decriminalised the personal use of cannabis. The Master Builders Association of the Western Cape (MBAWC) recently held a workshop to unpack the implications of decriminalisation in terms of occupational health and...
Transnet has approved further studies into the establishment of a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) plant at the Port of Cape Town’s Quay 700 area. Cape Town remains a water scarce region, having just emerged from its worst drought since 1904....
Minister of Water and Sanitation Gugile Nkwinti has singled out pollution as the biggest threat to the South Africa’s water quality. “A resolution to the thousands of informal settlements that stretch along South Africa’s rivers must be considered...
Amid challenges such as climate change, disaster reduction and future proofing, is enough being done to preserve our water? Research by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that limiting global warming to 1.5°C...
Up to 50% of the annual inflows into two of South Africa’s important dams could be used up by alien plants over a period of 45 years, if they are left uncleared. This warning about the Western Cape’s Berg River Dam catchment and Limpopo’s De Hoop...
Cape Town managed to avoid becoming the world’s first big city to run out of water. But a group of academics is now looking beyond Day Zero to see what lessons can be learned from the Cape Town Water Crisis. A year after the height of the...
While StatsSA’s 2016 General Household Survey estimated that 88.8% of South African households have access to piped water, less than half the population is believed to have water piped directly to their homes. Although most households in South...
In line with a R187 million expansion project to improve the ageing infrastructure in Buffalo City Municipality, the Reeston Wastewater Treatment Works in East London has undergone an upgrade to increase its capacity to 12.5 Mℓ/day. As part of the...
South Africa is in a water crisis and wastewater reuse, desalination and potable water quality are top of the agenda. Where will our future water be sourced? The most common solutions to South Africa’s water challenges usually entail a massive...
