Improved maintenance and upgrades has helped the City of Cape Town keep its water demand below the peak level recorded in 2001. Cape Town mayoral committee member for utility services, Ernest Sonnenberg, announced that through careful management,...
Water and energy have crucial impacts on poverty alleviation, as a number of the Millennium Development Goals depend on major improvements in access to water, sanitation, power and energy sources. The two resources are closely interconnected and...
Much has been written about the unacceptably high non-revenue water losses suffered by most municipalities.It is common knowledge that there are few water supply authorities that can claim a water loss of less than 30% of their potable water input....
Water from coal may sound impossible but happens every day. By Susan Cole, regional commercial manager sub-Saharan Africa, Dow Water & Process Solutions Each day in north-eastern South Africa, an award-winning water reclamation plant turns...
This week marks National Water Week, a campaign aimed at re-emphasising the value of water and the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource. The awareness campaign runs from the 18th to the 24th of March. The Department of Water...
On World Water Day, 22 March 2014, the African Development Bank (AfDB) celebrates the role water plays in generating electricity and the role of energy in the development of the continent. According to the AfDB, the lack of access to modern energy...
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...
Water users and water service providers in South Africa must start talking to each other to better manage scarce groundwater resources and avoid pumping aquifers dry. Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa kicked of National Water Week on Monday. In...
Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, has launched National Water Week which will run from 17 to 23 March. This year’s Water Week is celebrated under the theme “Celebrating 20 Years of Water Delivery for Social and Economic...
