Due to the ongoing concern over future water scarcity in urban areas, Vela VKE (Part of the SMEC Group) was recently commissioned to assist a number of South African municipalities in implementing effective water demand management strategies, in...
The finals of Aqualibrium, the exciting SAICE-WRC Schools Water Schools Competition 2012 were held at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, Johannesburg, on 27 July 2012. This worthwhile competition never fails to excite the teams, spectators...
The international charity organisation, Water Aid, has opened its regional office in South Africa in an effort to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in some of the world’s neediest communities. Officially opened on Wednesday...
Harmony Gold, the world’s fifth-largest gold producer, is to appeal against a North Gauteng High Court ruling that it continue paying for pumping water from a West Rand mine it sold in 2008, CEO Graham Briggs told Business Day last Friday. An...
As competition for clean water grows, some of the world’s biggest companies have joined forces to create unprecedented maps of the precious resource. The Aqueduct Alliance, which allows users to create maps by combining hydrological data with...
More than 100 people in the Zimbabwean capital Harare and Chitungwiza, a dormitory town 35km southeast of the city, have contracted typhoid this month, and the dilapidated water and sanitation systems are again being blamed for another round of...
In the realm of pressure management, the company has implemented the i20 system; the world’s most advanced solution. Municipalities, utilities and government organisations in South Africa have saved 82.9 Mℓ/d of potable water worth R100million a...
Contaminated water and increases of deadly substances in drinking water are increasingly becoming the silent assassin of people in South Africa, especially the marginalised in rural areas. Contaminated water already claimed victims. In 2008 the...
In this video we are showing few very important facts about water. To illustrate all these facts we have used: – 3ds max for 3d animation; – RealFlow for water simulation; – After Effects for compositing and 2d...
