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Western Cape Water Supply: Overview In Numbers
What is a Blue Drop Risk Rating (BDRR)? The BDRR assessment focuses on critical risk areas within water services provision. This allows the water service institution to identify and prioritise the critical risk areas within its drinking water treatment process and to...
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Solving environmental law confusion: Lawyer Lizette van der Walt launches innovative app
Lizette van der Walt is a lawyer specialising in environmental law. In her 27 years of experience, she noticed a general confusion around environmental laws in South Africa and decided to help by creating the Enviro Legal app. This app is designed to help users...
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Turning The Tide To Achieve SDG 6
Coming off the back of the WISA 2024 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, we can all agree that accelerated change is needed in achieving SDG 6 by 2030. As we celebrate 30 years of democracy this year and honour women during the month of August, it is fitting that we...
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[Industry Personality] Carin Bosman: Make noise and have a code
The water sector is filled with passionate people, Carin Bosman is one such passionate person, and she serves to remind us of all that water is for the betterment of humanity, and when you are tasked with doing what is right, you have to make some noise. Early on in...
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Better year for yellow equipment
Earthmoving and mining equipment sales have broken a three-year downward cycle moving with a strong increase during 2017. Figures released by the Construction and Mining Equipment Suppliers’ Association (Conmesa) show that 5614 new units were sold...
UCT to capture heritage project in Zanzibar
Global engineering and infrastructure advisory company Aurecon is one of a group of companies throwing its weight behind the University of Cape Town to document the intervention and upgrading of the historic Stone Town Seafront in Zanzibar. The...
The countdown to Bauma Conexpo Africa begins
One of the continent’s leading industry trade fairs is set to take place at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in roughly a week’s time and according to the organisers it continues attract international participation highlighted by four new joint...
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Plastics and packaging industry collaborate to find solutions to marine litter
The 2017 African Marine Waste Conference took place in Port Elizabeth recently, and was attended by about 200 delegates from nine African states and a further ten countries from other continents. Managed by the Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) under...
Bridge collapse: forensic investigation underway
The Department of Labour (DoL) has started its inspection to determine the cause of the collapse of the unused pedestrian bridge over the N3 highway. Five people were injured, three seriously, when the bridge collapsed in the early hours of the...
Plastic chokes Durban’s coastline – SA ranks among worst polluters
Mangrove swamps normally team with life, as small scuttling things make their homes in underground holes and in among thick plant roots. However, when marine scientist Dr Brent Newman visited Durban harbour recently, he was surprised to find not a...
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