The 100-year-old Umzonyana Water Treatment Works is to be refurbished in a R50 million upgrade project, which will increase its treatment capacity by 30 Mℓ/d – from 120 to 150 Mℓ/d, according to Royal HaskoningDHV, the consultants appointed for the...
The Department of Water Affairs (DWA) has appointed engineering consultants Royal HaskoningDHV to carry its 2013 Green Drop audit inspections on several water authorities in the Eastern Cape. Buffalo City Municipality, Mthatha DWP, Mahjabeng Local...
The organisers of WWEM 2012, the Water Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring event, have announced that visitor numbers were up by 22% in comparison with 2010. On behalf of the organisers, Marcus Pattison expressed his delight with this success,...
In 2001, Singaporean businessman Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organisation to bring attention to the lack of sanitation in developing countries. Travellers are still taking part in the organizsation’s annual World Toilet Day (19 November),...
