Featured
Reducing Risk and Building Trust with Bureau Veritas
A world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, Bureau Veritas operates in agri-food, industry, commodities as well as building and infrastructure markets. Water is a critical resource across all these sectors, and as its quality declines, water...
Featured
Tsebo Facilities Management Champions Water Conservation in the Workplace
Multiple provinces in the country are grappling with deteriorating water quality and increasingly frequent and lengthy disruptions to water supply. And as a workplace management solutions provider, Tsebo is tackling this reality head-on. “Most of our customers within...
Featured
A New Defender Emerges To Tackle Water Pollution
“Water pollution in South Africa has worsened, and it has worsened largely due to the collapse of municipal governance. By not properly planning for, operating, maintaining or building water and sanitation infrastructure, raw sewage is running down some streets in...
Featured
Can Municipalities Keep The Water Flowing?
South Africa’s growing urbanisation is straining the current water infrastructure, necessitating sustainable water. Having a reliable water supply is tied to social stability, and disruptions undermine community well-being as well as environmental...
Catchment Management Forum to reinforce health of the Diep River
The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation, Councillor Zahid Badroodien joined the newly established Diep River Catchment Management Forum (DRCMF) for a walk along the Diep River on Tuesday. As part of its Mayoral Priority...
District Development Model ensures government works as a team
The District Development Model (DDM) is a demonstration of the three spheres of government’s focus on resolving service delivery challenges facing communities in South Africa, says Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,...
New products, innovations and world-class technologies at Electra Mining Africa
An exhibition viewed by industry as one of the most important events on the calendar, Electra Mining Africa provides a unique platform where exhibitors can launch new products and showcase their latest innovations and technologies. Taking place at...
How can the concept of ‘decent work’ create a thriving and sustainable building industry in the Western Cape?
The concept of ‘decent work’ is one that government, labour unions, employers and market analysts encourage if South Africa is to further its growth ambitions. The idea is that work is not only seen as a source of income but a vehicle for personal...
South Africa’s Agriculture Sector Achieves $1.47 Billion Trade Surplus in Q2 Despite Slight Decline in Exports
In the second quarter, South Africa’s agriculture sector recorded a trade surplus of $1.47 billion, representing a 6% decrease compared to the same period last year. The surplus was achieved despite a slight 0.1% year-on-year decrease in...
Sasol’s Profit Plunges 66% Amid Weak Chemical Prices; Skips Final Dividend
Sasol, the South African petrochemicals giant, reported a sharp 66% decline in full-year profit on Tuesday, driven primarily by weaker chemical prices. Consequently, the company decided to forego a final dividend for the year. Headline earnings, a...
Sustainability
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption, study says
Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across the world have faced severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use. Future projections are said to be even more alarming since urban water crises are expected...
Nordex Group aims to provide fully recyclable wind turbine blades by 2032
Ahead of the imminent release of the Nordex Group’s 2022 Sustainability Report, it has been announced that the company is now participating as one of the eighteen partners, in a sustainability project, funded by the European Union, to drive the...
SAVA reports successful recycling of PVC products in South Africa
South Africa continues to record a gradual increase in the annual recycling of PVC products. Despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic on the industry, the recycling rate of vinyl products increased by 9.5 % in 2020. The following year...
NCPC-SA Trains Professionals for a Green Economy
The National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) invites companies interested in improving their resource efficiency and saving money to register their in-house representatives and/or consultants for upcoming NCPC-SA training...
New partnership aimed at empowering African nations in the fight against plastic pollution
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal have partnered in a new project called AFRIPAC, aimed to empower five (African) nations´ negotiating skills for a strong Global...
Trash to treasure for a sustainable built environment
The well-known proverb “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” has never been truer than on Global Recycling Day, Saturday 18 March 2023. With over 8.3 billion metric tons of mostly single-use plastics manufactured globally since the start of...
Industry News
BRICS’ Joint Finance Statement a boost for infrastructure funding
On 15 August 2023, the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) endorsed the BRICS Joint Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors Statement (Joint Finance Statement) under South...
SAISC supports the empowerment of women in the steel sector
Helping women to realise their potential is central to the vision of the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC), which wants to see women participating at every level of the steel and engineering sectors. “Studies have...
Fostering innovation at World Water Week
Global crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and hunger are closely interlinked. Their progression heavily depends on how we value water resources. We can change the course if we innovate how we manage water. Therefore, World Water Week...
Water
Metro News
A tale of two cities
Cape Town is two cities in one: one is an affluent global city; the other is a city of poverty, slums, shackdwellers and homeless people, with little to no municipal services. By Jemima Spring (Mycelium Media Colab), Prof Lesley Green...
Opinion
The link between stormwater and sanitation
In South Africa, wastewater and stormwater are conveyed in separate pipelines. And while it can be an environmental disaster and health hazard for stormwater and sewage to meet, it is advisable to manage both as part of an integrated urban water...
Government must support Rand Water to prevent continued vandalism of bulk water infrastructure
Over the last five days whole parts of the City of Tshwane have grappled without water due to a lack of supply from Rand Water. The primary driver of these shortages have been incidents of vandalism which have taken place alongside planned...
Waste
Engineering
Little relief for consulting engineering industry in SONA 2023, highlights AECOM
South Africa urgently needs to accelerate its infrastructure project pipeline and ensure sufficient technical capacity at the municipal level. This is the message from Darrin Green, Africa MD of globally trusted infrastructure firm AECOM. While...
Rising debt levels cloud construction growth in 2023 – GlobalData
Construction output in Sub-Saharan Africa grew by an estimated 1.7% in 2022, compared to a growth of 3.2% registered in 2021. The industry is forecast to record growth of 3.2% in 2023, however, significant downside risks persist, most notably the...
It’s time to raise the relevance of the engineering profession in SA – SAICE
2023 is a year of opportunity for the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) to actively raise the relevance or value of the engineering professional, as perceived in the public sector; as well as its own relevance as a ‘thought...
Technology
Read our Magazines
Digital Magazines
Water & Sanitation Africa
The official magazine of the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA), the magazine publishes content dealing with the supply, governance, financing, treatment and measurement of water and sanitation in southern Africa.