The National Planning Commission has paid particular attention to water issues and how they impact and influence our development pathways and opportunities.new growth path, Water has a role to play in four out of five of the job drivers identified...
The Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA), the oldest industry association serving the discipline of municipal engineers in the country, commenced with lobbying for higher integration and collaboration between local...
The main purpose of World Environment Day is to encourage humanity to take collective responsibility and support the conservation of the world and its resources. Activities that take place are thus centred on the education and awareness of...
Three years since it became operational, King Shaka International Airport has made great strides in protecting and preserving the communities around it. The airport is Airports Company South Africa’s first green-field project, located 35 kilometres...
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount of food produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, one in every seven people in...
Picture: A static compost heap on the Welgevallen Experimental Farm in Stellenbosch. (Photo: Dr Elmi Lötze) Wanted: school hostels, feeding schemes, or community gardens in the Boland that want to dispose of their large volumes of garden refuse or...
The role of women in water resource management is changing, as is the focus of their interaction within the water industry, according to Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi. “We brought rural women on board to...
Slowly but surely, South Africans are being forced to contemplate the inconvenient truth of water being on the endangered list. The increasingly limited access to this once plentiful resource is resulting in water taking centre stage in all our...
Landfill Consulting has carved a profitable niche for itself in the beneficiation of green waste into compost for the City of Cape Town. James Kamau of Mfangano, dedicated distributors of the Rayco range of products, discusses how just one initial...
