Recent legislation promulgated in the United States has put caps in Massachusetts limiting the amount of food that goes to landfill. In South Africa and many other developing countries around the world no such cap exists, although these countries...
By Liesl Frankson The theme for World Toilet Day 2014 is Equality and Dignity, and this year the organisers aim to highlight the link between gender-based violence and sanitation. The United Nations General Assembly, in 2013, designated 19 November...
BMW South Africa has signed a power purchasing agreement with energy company Bio2Watt, to supply the car manufacturer with renewable energy sources for operations at its Rosslyn production facility, north of Pretoria. In what is thought to be the...
Every year, IMESA reviews the papers published in IMIESA Magazine, the Institute’s official publication , and select the best paper written by an IMESA member and the best paper by a non-member. The aim of the award is to bring attention to the...
With the rapid developments in internet-based technology, the value of using the internet as a platform for data access and display is being recognised throughout the world. Remote logging through GSM and GPRS devices in particular are commonplace...
The City of Cape Town (CCT) has proposed an upgrade of the sewerage system that runs along the beach front in Gordons Bay. The proposed upgrade has come in response to regular complaints from residents and business owners situated along the beach...
Low pressure compressed air is widely used for applications such as waste water aeration at treatment plants; dilute phase pneumatic conveying of dry powders and flue-gas desulphurisation of emission stacks. “The blower market for small volume...
Lund University in Sweden has developed a “super detector” that can track traces from a teaspoon of sugar in the Baltic Sea. The technology has also been adapted for use as a potentially life-saving technique that can detect toxic algae blooms in...
A video has appeared on popular web-content sharing platform YouTube recently showing sewage running through the ceiling of a children’s clinic at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital. According to a statement published by opposition...
