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Bovu Pumps at IFAT Africa 2017

Frances Ringwood editor of Water & Sanitation Africa talks to Edward Bovu, CEO of Bovu Pumps about some amphibious excavators at IFAT Africa 2017.  

SA beaches awarded Blue Flag status for 2017/18

South Africa has reason to celebrate. Forty four beaches throughout the country have been given the much sought after Blue Flag status for the 2017/18 summer season. Blue Flag is an international award given to beaches that meet excellence in the...

City of Cape Town could run out of water by March 2018

The City of Cape Town could run out of water by March, next year. That’s according to city mayor, Patricia de Lille. She has announced a three phase plan that the city will implement to avoid acute water shortages in the municipality. Source:...

Kouga Municipality to alleviate an overflowing estuary

The Kouga Municipality in Jeffrey’s Bay in the Eastern Cape has received permission from the Department of Environmental Affairs to dig a trench to alleviate an overflowing estuary. The estuary that has forced the closure of the bridge that...

Liquid packaging recycling

Juice and milk cartons have long been one of the contributors to waste in South Africa’s landfill sites. In what is a major development for the South African paper and packaging recycling market, Mpact Recycling is pleased to announce that liquid...

Cape Town to implement additional water supply scheme

As the rainy season draws to a close in the Western Cape the much-anticipated relief has not come. Dam levels are just over 37 percent with only 27 percent of that usable. The city of Cape Town will implement its first major additional water supply...

Water’s Promise

Water today is undervalued, misused and misallocated. Too many of us take it for granted – we turn on the tap and it flows. But did you know only 4% of Earth’s water is freshwater and only 0.5% of that is safe for human consumption? As shocks...