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MTN Business Smart Water: Where Utility Management Meets Intelligence
In today’s increasingly connected and sustainability-driven world, managing water efficiently is not only an economic necessity, but a key responsibility for individuals, businesses, and municipalities. “The MTN Business Smart Water solution addresses this need,...
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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...
R2.5 million partnership formed for water conservation in South Africa
Finish, the world’s no. 1 recommended dishwasher detergent, will be donating R2.5 million between 2020 and 2021 to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to support water conservation efforts in South Africa. The main objective is to help protect...
Global leaders support bold action on climate change adaptation for Africa
In a historic and united show of solidarity for a continent that contributes only 5% to global emissions, more than 30 heads of state and global leaders committed to prioritize actions that help African countries adapt to the impacts of climate...
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Tetra Pak highlights packaging industry’s key 2021 conundrum
The Covid-19 pandemic calls for a paradigm shift in how the packaging industry meets consumer’s safety concerns while addressing the very real threat of climate change, says Tetra Pak Southern Africa Marketing Director Nthabiseng Motsoeneng....
Digital Twins named as the emerging tech to disrupt multiple industries
Leading data and analytics companies GlobalData and Marketscreener have reported a significant rise in the adoption of Digital Twins – virtual models of physical objects such as buildings, cars or infrastructure. More industry sectors now recognise...
Build smarter with digitalization
The construction industry is tool-based – there are different tools for different jobs. This creates silos of information and work that are unstructured and uncollated. Andrew Skudder, CEO of RIB CCS, talks about a solution-based collaborative...
Survey confirms billions lost in investment due to erratic heritage application processes
The findings of a dipstick survey conducted by the Western Cape Property Development Forum (WCPDF) have confirmed investors and built environment professionals, in both the private and public sectors, are extremely frustrated by the drawn-out and...
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Stone Paper from Rubble
In his State of the City Address 2015 on 6 May 2015, Executive Mayor Cll. Parks Tau announced that the City of Johannesburg “will be converting most of the 250 000 tonnes of rubble collected from illegal dump sites into a new form of stone...
New water website to flood city with info
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department has launched a new and improved website, loaded with useful information that may assist residents, learners, students, educators and visitors. The City believes that the use of interactive...
Smart cities are safe cities
The Safe City Africa Summit held today in Cape Town, has provided a platform for more than 400 delegates representing industry leaders and governments from all over Africa to share insights development trends and expertise on the issues of public...
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