2016 marks the third year of continual growth for the international desalination market following its slump in the mid-2000s. According to the 2016-2017 IDA Yearbook, published by Global Water Intelligence, mid-2015 desalination totals were up 14%...
Six of the fifteen companies involved in the collusion uncovered by the Competition Commission have signed a Voluntary Rebuild Programme (VRP) Agreement with government which will see them make a significant financial contribution to the industry....
South Africa’s large mining operations make South Africa one of the most power-hungry economies in the world. However this industry is being fed by a an aging and increasingly unreliable batch of coal fired power plants that struggle to...
Municipalities’ total expenditure rose 21.9% to R87.5 billion in the second quarter of the year. This is according to Stats SA’s latest Quarterly financial statistics of municipalities report which collects a range of financial data from...
67 000 jobs were lost in the second quarter, a decrease of 0.7% compared to March 2016. The job losses, reported by Stats SA are in the formal non-agricultural sector. Quarterly employment losses were observed in all industries except electricity...
An Institutional Stakeholder Dialogue is on the programme for the closing of the 2016 IMESA Conference & Exhibition. The dialogue will be moderated by Danai Magugumela, MD of Bosch Projects, with panellists drawn from key institutions and...
Can climate resilience be strengthening through wise water management, and can the implementation of the 2030 and climate agendas be better integrated – with water as a useful connector? The following experts took part in a high level panel...
The International Water Association (IWA) has released a manual to assist services providers with achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. The Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners aims to help...
The City of Ekurhuleni is taking more serious measures to increase water savings as figures show an achieved savings rate of only 0.8%, significantly lower than the required 15%. The extremely low water savings achieved since the implementation of...
