The Emfuleni Local Municipality has refuted claims that its sewer reticulation system is one of the pollution threats to the Vaal River System, through E-coli and other pathogens, from raw or poorly treated sewage. In a statement released last week...
An abattoir in Villiers,Free State had its pumping facilities dismantled by officials of the Blue Scorpions, an enforcement unit of the Department of Water and Sanitation, for operating without a water use license. Accompanied by the police, the...
The Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) initiated an independent survey during September this year. This was done in order to ascertain whether the organisation was achieving its objectives. The survey measured...
By Dave Collins An increasingly questionable global energy supply combined with surging population growth, is creating a situation in which the global energy bubble is bound to burst. Scientists are already saying that we need one-and-half planet...
By Frances Ringwood Piloted in South Africa’s Western Cape Province as the Western Cape Industrial Symbiosis Programme (WISP) – coordinated by Green Cape and supported by a number of other statutory bodies including the Western Cape Government – a...
Containerised portable water treatment plants play a vital role in the delivery of water and treatment of waste, especially in hot, water-stressed countries. Water and Sanitation Africa’s latest edition features top manufacturers, installers...
Government has set aside R250 million to renew and improve the sewer network system in Bekkersdal, south west of Johannesburg. “In responding to the waste management challenges of Bekkersdal, government will also be welcoming the City of...
The National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) came into effect in November 2011. As a legislative requirement of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008), it aims to give effect to the objects of the Waste Act. It...
The most basic of all human rights – water – is also a central element in global affairs and the development agenda with wide implications on international peace and security, the Deputy Secretary-General of the UN told participants at...
