The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has set aside more than R90-million in its capital budget to undertake several major roads infrastructure projects in the City’s Region C for the 2015/16 financial year starting 1 July 2015. The region covers the...
Municipalities are under pressure to divert waste from landfill as required by the National Environmental Management: Waste Act (NEM:WA, Act 59 of 2008). The implementation of alternative waste management thus far has been largely on an ad hoc...
A university materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even when it’s dark. This innovation, from the University of Texas at Arlington team, is an improvement over most...
In a bid to stem water wastage in the country, a group of Grade 10 learners from Mathari High School in Limpopo have developed a project which uses cellphones to control water usage. Through the Project Water Conversation, learners devised a method...
The eThekwini Municipality is extending its water rationing to uThongathi from Friday, 3 July 2015, to address the critical drought situation the Province of KwaZulu-Natal is currently facing. Water rationing has already been implemented in other...
In observance of World Ocean Day earlier last month, the following video discusses ocean acidification and climate change and what we can do to help. Source: XPRIZE Insights Source URL:...
The Rainbow Nation Recycling Club in Kini Bay just outside Port Elizabeth comprises a little buy-back centre and a swop shop, and brings hope to the Clarendon Marine community by supporting local children who bring in recyclable PET bottles on a...
Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the environmental health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development...
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies says advanced manufacturing can drive industrialisation and create sustainable jobs. Minister Rob Davies was speaking at the two-day Annual Manufacturing Indaba that started in Kempton Park this week....
