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Innovative technique for treating wastewater

Tanzanian scientists are busy exploring an affordable and innovative technology for treating and reusing wastewater for agriculture. Scientists are exploring constructed wetlands as a way to treat wastewater. The constructed wetland is a 0.6 m deep...
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New pump station to combat AMD

Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) pumps have been installed in the Witwatersrand area. These pumps will ensure the area’s AMD remains below the Environmental Critical Level (ECL). Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and Mineral Resource...
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Solar powers first sustainable community dairy

Corporates come together to donate 20kW photovoltaic plant to Camphill Village West Coast. The installation of a 20 kilowatt (kW) thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at Camphill Village in the Western Cape, will make its dairy one of the first...
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SAFCEC changes its name

SAFCEC has changed its name to the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors. The company says forum better describes its way of business than federation. The business believes the name change could not have come at a better time. SAFCEC...