Electricity solutions must be reliable and affordable: expert
The ANC has released a statement saying maintenance at Eskom is a priority but an expert warns the utility has a financial crisis as well as operational problems. Source:...
Previous Episodes
Bill Nye: The search for life begins with water
What conditions are scientists looking for in their search for life on another planet? The presence of water is key, explains Bill Nye, aka The Science Guy.
Time-Lapse Video Shows One World Trade Construction
A very interesting video compiled by Earthcam
How plastic bags get recycled
Plastic pollution is a problem – but the solution starts with recycling everything and anything we can, including plastic bags. We scoped out the largest plastic bag recycling facility in the world to see how it’s done. Check out our...
Water Changes Everything
Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life. Health. Education. Food security. And the lives of women...
Recycling for cash
South Africa – recycling for cash: Creative entrepreneurs in South Africa are benefiting economically from recycling electronic waste by using it as raw materials for manufacturing. They’re also refurbishing computers and selling them as...
The Advanced Water Purification Process
The water purification process being demonstrated at the City of San Diego’s Advanced Water Purification Facility uses the multi-barrier approach of consecutive treatment steps — Membrane Filtration, Reverse Osmosis & Ultraviolet...
Architecture that repairs itself?
Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon,...
Blue Drop results 2012
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa releases the results at the WISA 2012 conference at the CTICC.
World Water Day
VOA’s Vincent Makori talks to Professor Eugene Cloete, of Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, and lead researcher of the tea bag filter project, about water projects.