Johannesburg residents will be without water this weekend according to an announcement from the City’s water and sanitation service provider. Johannesburg Water (JW) released a statement warning residents of the maintenance work it will undertake...
African countries have come under scrutiny for failure to prioritise water in their development agendas. Speaking to the Inter Press services (IPS), Thomas Chiramba, Head of Freshwater Ecosystems Unit at the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) in...
Transporting water to remote sites, be it potable or process water in mining, industrial, municipal or private applications, requires immense logistical management and can significantly add to day-to-day overheads. This was a topic presented at a...
The 15th African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa conference and exhibition, returns to the CTICC in Cape Town from 12-14 May. The event has been extended by an extra day to offer three days of conference sessions, networking and an extra...
Lafarge recently welcomed Praveen Bechoo as its general manager for aggregates. Praveen, whose appointment commenced 01 October 2014 is based at the Lafarge head office in Longmeadow, Johannesburg and is a member of the Country Executive Committee....
The upgrading and augmentation of the Johannesburg Water’s Olifantsvlei Wastewater Treatment Works Module-3 in the southern part of the City of Johannesburg is finally nearing completion according to the City. The augmentation from the current...
Residents of Mashonamini near Mkhuhlu in the Bushbuckridge Municipality in northern Mpumalanga are threatening to embark on a strike soon. The residents say that they have been without water for the past twenty years, despite the completion of the...
Construction workers around the world protested the merger of two multinational cement companies, Lafarge and Holcim, over workers’ rights last week. According to a report by the Daily Independent construction workers under aegis of...
Wheat farmers in Rwanda will soon benefit from both wheat output and its residues which will be transformed into building materials like construction bricks and other products once a new factory at the Special Economic Zone begins operations....
