While the debate about South Africa’s power supply rages on, renewable energy is making strides in providing support to the national grid. According to Eskom Transmission’s load forecast data over the last two years, the country’s daily peak load...
Completed some 100 years ago for South African Railways & Harbours, the existing Canelands pipe bridge crosses the Mdloti River in Verulam and features five 33 m spans of 5.5 m deep structural steel trusses. These are simply supported on...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has a mandate to coordinate and implement SDG 6 in South Africa by 2030. WASA catches up with Mark Bannister, chief engineer and SDG 6 coordinator at the DWS, to find out about its implementation and...
Approximately eight Western Cape municipalities have come under fire for unsustainable waste management programmes aggravated by lack of funding and suitable land. The Western Cape province possesses 57 landfill sites in various regions and the...
