Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear plant recently launched a mobile groundwater desalination plant amidst the drought currently gripping the Western Cape. According to Eskom the desalination plant will take care of the country’s sole nuclear power plant thus...
The eThekwini Municipality is currently home to a number of catalytic projects and according to Phillip Sithole Deputy City Manager of Economic Development and Planning, they are progressing well. Sithole was updating the executive committee on the...
Globally, up to 10% of energy used in water treatment goes towards pumping water. Grundfos believes that up to 4% of this can be saved by utilising good pumps and systems. The company has designed a range of energy-efficient, smart products...
The eThekwini municipality is embarking on a campaign to replace the vehicles in its fleet to strengthen the City’s service delivery efforts. A report outlining the City’s need to purchase new vehicles was tabled at a full council meeting last week...
By WJ (Wessel) Pienaar, Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University General overview Regional developmental economic benefits of road supply can be divided into once-off non-user benefits and recurring non-user benefits. Once-off...
Phase 3 of the Nooitgedagt project is back online after the Department of Water and Sanitation restored the budget to R93 million. Contractors walked off site last week following an announcement by the department that it was slashing the budget by...
Day zero is now also looming for the Eastern Cape’s Kouga region. Disadvantaged communities are already feeling the impact. Their main supply dam is at 9 percent. The majority of the three hundred thousand people in Hankey and Patensie areas...
By Patrick Dowling, WESSA: Western Cape Regional Membership Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now...
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thompson is calling on South Africans to get involved in the protection and conservation of wetlands in the country. Speaking ahead of the annual World Wetland day celebrations Thompson said wetlands...
