The use of ultra filtration as the main treatment processes for the treatment of Cape brown water for potable use By Herman Smit* and LizeMarie Tolken The need for two separate water treatment requirements at different locations in the holiday town...
By 2025 half the world’s population will not have enough water to meet its needs, warns Rashad Kaldany, urging governments and the private sector to work on solutions, which he says, do exist. Rashad Kaldany is vice president for Global Industries...
Buckman has joined forces with Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) in a move set to put the chemical company in an industry-leading position. Andre Maartens, sales manager for the Energy Division of Buckman Africa says: “As a chemical supplier we...
Whether you live in the United States or in Ethiopia, sanitation and proper hygiene is an issue that affects you, but in Ethiopia, the lack of convenient water sources can make the difference between life and death. According to the Centers for...
Water boards were owed debts by municipalities to the tune of about R1 billion a year, but the Water and Environmental Affairs Ministry does not believe that this is a train smash as the entities are paid about R8.8 billion a year, thus the loss of...
Water resources in South Africa are under “immense pressure” and the department wants to partner with communities to increase protection for wetlands and rivers. “We realise that our water resources are under immense pressure from...
South Africa – recycling for cash: Creative entrepreneurs in South Africa are benefiting economically from recycling electronic waste by using it as raw materials for manufacturing. They’re also refurbishing computers and selling them as...
When you don’t clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at feeding microbes, wasting some 222 million metric tons of food a year. That’s a quarter of our food. Much of that wasted food ends up in garbage dumps,...
Smart grids. Smart metering. If you are the kind of person who is regularly to be found around conferences where utilities and especially power supplies issues are discussed, you will be familiar with these words. In fact, you may even be one of...
