From 8 to 10 July 2025, analytica Lab Africa will open its doors in Johannesburg, showcasing 137 exhibitors in total. The spotlight will be on cutting-edge German technology. Leading companies will present innovative solutions from the fields of...
As municipalities and service providers demand greater efficiency, reliability, and ease of maintenance from their sewer-cleaning and industrial jetting and vacuuming equipment, hydraulic-driven pumps are increasingly becoming the standard....
A group of mostly South African engineering professionals who bought a controlling margin of the South African arm of Netherlands-based engineering consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV have rebranded it as Atana, effective from 1 July 2025. The group –...
Changes in land-use in urban areas are raising the risk of flooding, making it vital for stormwater to be managed in an integrated way, argues Dennis Mulaudzi, hydrologist at SRK Consulting (South Africa). “One of the primary concerns in stormwater...
To the old saying “Death and taxes are inevitable”, I would add a third – trash. As long as modern mankind has been around, he has generated waste, and the problem is getting worse. Is there a solution other than not generating waste? By Reg...
The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) is donating R10-million to help communities in the Eastern Cape that have been affected by the devastating floods that have claimed over 100 lives. The funding has been allocated under the NLC’s...
Waste collection and transport are the public face of waste management. Landfills are the backend that keeps the sector going. As South Africa adopts circular economic practices, landfills still hold a key position in the waste sector, and act as...
Developed in South Africa through the Water Research Commission, the Vortex Settling Basin (VSB) is a water treatment system that will remove sediment, suspended solids, and other pollutants from water. South Africa has a history of building dams...
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
