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Cape Town’s untapped water source explored
The City of Cape Town still finds itself on the fast track to having no useable water left in just over three months. This comes after two years of below than average rainfall, and bringing water usage under control now remains one of the city’s...
SA company to provide potable water to Zambian village
Turning raw river water into potable drinking water will become a reality in Zambia with the intervention of a Johannesburg-based company. Water and wastewater engineering company WEC Projects was recently awarded a contract to install a water...
IFAT Africa 2017: Finding ways out of the water crisis
Southern Africa suffering under severe drought Pipeline projects worth billions planned Greater use of groundwater and seawater in the future From September 12 to 14, 2017, local and international representatives from the environmental sector will...
SBS Tanks: Water tank delivery
Storing, capturing and reusing water is an imperative, alongside conventional reservoir containment systems, for sustained 24/7 supply – areas comprehensively covered by SBS Tanks’ turnkey solutions. Water security has been high on the...
Technological advances in wastewater treatment
IMIESA speaks to ERWAT’s managing director, Tumelo Gopane, about the Welgedacht Wastewater Treatment Works extension in Springs and how this ties in with broader capacity expansion plans for the Gauteng region. What were the constraints facing the...
Gap in the market for SA’s wastewater treatment suppliers
A gap in the market has presented itself to experts in the water and wastewater treatment sectors. With municipalities across the country experiencing challenges with broken and/or ageing water infrastructure, and with only a limited amount of...
Water scarcity dominates 6th World Sustainability Forum
Water scarcity topped the agenda at the 6th World Sustainability Forum recently held in Cape Town. Experts in the industry said water sustainability is critical in order to meet the country’s sustainable development goals, and discussed...
Burst water pipes, the least of eThekwini’s troubles
Broken and ageing water infrastructure in eThekwini has ruffled the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) feathers. The DA is pressing the municipality to fix burst water pipes around the city as it is wasting a resource that the country is grappling to save,...
