WEC Projects has grown steadily over the past few years, quietly gaining market share and influence by producing brilliant and original project-based solutions in Gauteng. New managing director Wayne Taljaard explains what’s next for WEC. How have...
South Africa-based Protea Chemicals, one of Africa’s largest chemical companies, plays a pivotal role in enabling businesses, manufacturing entities and municipalities throughout the African continent to effectively treat and reuse water. The...
Flexibility and water infrastructure are not normally associated with one another. But, just as power generation has evolved over the past two decades, the water and wastewater sectors are starting to adjust to the challenges of higher demand,...
Kenya has launched a policy aimed at eradicating unsanitary hygiene practices as it moves towards increasing access to improved sanitation. The Kenyan government spends Ksh27 billion (±R4.2 billion) annually on hygiene-related diseases like...
With two-thirds of Africans expected to live in cities by 2050, how Africa urbanises will be critical to the continent’s future growth and development. This is according to the new African Economic Outlook 2016 released by the African...
“Trash banking” is beginning to catch on in parts of Africa following its success in other parts of the world. The practice of trash banking is well-known in Indonesia. The country has 2 800 trash banks in 129 cities which serve 175 000 people,...
Our relation to water is ambivalent: when we are thinking about it we imagine the crystal clear source of life, yet in the urban area our water treatment is a mess. Literally. But wasting water like that is no longer an option. It’s time to...
South Africa is among the world’s least energy efficient countries in terms of its economy. Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Peterson told delegates the uncomfortable truth about South Africa’s energy efficiency at the 2016 African Utilities Week....
Entries are open for the IMESA Excellence Awards. The Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) in collaboration with the Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) are inviting local, provincial and government / semi-government...
