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Solving environmental law confusion: Lawyer Lizette van der Walt launches innovative app
Lizette van der Walt is a lawyer specialising in environmental law. In her 27 years of experience, she noticed a general confusion around environmental laws in South Africa and decided to help by creating the Enviro Legal app. This app is designed to help users...
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Turning The Tide To Achieve SDG 6
Coming off the back of the WISA 2024 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, we can all agree that accelerated change is needed in achieving SDG 6 by 2030. As we celebrate 30 years of democracy this year and honour women during the month of August, it is fitting that we...
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[Industry Personality] Carin Bosman: Make noise and have a code
The water sector is filled with passionate people, Carin Bosman is one such passionate person, and she serves to remind us of all that water is for the betterment of humanity, and when you are tasked with doing what is right, you have to make some noise. Early on in...
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[Cover Story] 40 years strong: Lethabo Intake Pumping Station’s historic refurbishment
A part of Rand Water’s proactive infrastructure maintenance project comprised the refurbishment of pumps and electrical boards at the Lethabo Intake Pumping Station. This key facility pumps water to ESKOM Lethabo Power Station and supplies over half of Gauteng via the...
Lining for the future
South Africa’s groundwater is under threat but one local geosynthetic linings company heard the call to make a difference. Frances Ringwood reports. “Not acid mine water but groundwater protection is going to be one of South Africa’s biggest...
Demand grows for water storage
SBS Tanks, a global exporter of Proudly South African liquid storage solutions, is experiencing a skyrocketing demand for its modular, affordable and reliable range of prefabricated ZINCALUME tanks. SBS Tanks sales and marketing manager Brian...
Panel Discussion – Fiberpipe
What specialist technical services does your company deploy and how are they all coordinated? RC Our technical staff provide engineers with design information and best practice principles. Field staff train contractors at the start of a project and...
Providing safe drinking water for the people of KZN
In July this year Umgeni Water turned 40 years old – a remarkable milestone in the history of the organisation. FOR FOUR decades, Umgeni Water has been abstracting raw water, treating it and delivering it as safe drinking water to six...
Servicing the industry for more than 30 years
ABECO Tanks is no stranger to the water storage tank industry and is a name that has stood its ground for over 30 years. ESTABLISHED IN 1983, founder, now CEO, Mannie Ramos identified a need for water supply to communities with limited resources...
New landfill rewrites history
When it became apparent that a new landfi ll was on the cards for Rustenburg, the Rustenburg Local Municipality looked to Golder Associates Africa on how to best facilitate this. Andre Venter, divisional leader: Integrated Waste Solutions and...
Sustainability
Four common office paper recycling mistakes
It is estimated that only 8% of businesses recycle their used paper and board, and the most well-intentioned recyclers might make mistakes. Even the most paperless offices use paper: from ultra-protective cardboard box for computer equipment to the...
Chemicals industry body welcomes new appointees
Two new permanent appointments have been announced by the Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association (CAIA). ReSource welcomes Dr Mlu Ganto and Amon Nyamhingura to South Africa’s most influential industry body in the chemical manufacturing and...
Urinal ‘island’ brings home the green gold
Based on its recent analysis of the biological cleaning market, international growth partnership company Frost & Sullivan has recognised Green Worx Cleaning Solutions with the 2016 South African Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product...
Creative engineering for the future
By Dr Kourosh Kayvani As the world becomes increasingly complex, ambiguous and volatile, creative and innovative design must underpin the way we frame and solve problems facing humanity and our environment. Engineering design has obviously always...
Five tips to reduce, reuse and recycle at work
All businesses generate waste and use a considerable amount of electricity for their daily operations, with dire consequences for the environment. While eliminating your carbon footprint altogether is an impossible task, there are several simple...
Uniquely South African solution to ‘turn landfills into gold mines’
By Stacey Davidson The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, brings together global leaders to create and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. This year, I will be representing...
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Opinion
Tetra Pak highlights packaging industry’s key 2021 conundrum
The Covid-19 pandemic calls for a paradigm shift in how the packaging industry meets consumer’s safety concerns while addressing the very real threat of climate change, says Tetra Pak Southern Africa Marketing Director Nthabiseng Motsoeneng....
Digital Twins named as the emerging tech to disrupt multiple industries
Leading data and analytics companies GlobalData and Marketscreener have reported a significant rise in the adoption of Digital Twins – virtual models of physical objects such as buildings, cars or infrastructure. More industry sectors now recognise...
Survey confirms billions lost in investment due to erratic heritage application processes
The findings of a dipstick survey conducted by the Western Cape Property Development Forum (WCPDF) have confirmed investors and built environment professionals, in both the private and public sectors, are extremely frustrated by the drawn-out and...
Water
Metro News
eThekwini worker strike goes to the central bargaining council
eThekwini Municipality has approach the central bargaining council to deliberate on the grievances of striking workers. Municipal workers have embarked on protest action following allegations that MK Veterans employed by the municipality were given...
Striking water workers leave Durban taps dry
Parts of Durban have been without water for several days after works at the water and waste water depots in Pinetown and Springfield went on strike The municipality is reportedly in the process of applying for a court interdict to force striking...
Joburg cracks down on illegal dumping
Illegal dumping is fast becoming a plague throughout Johannesburg, with many illegal dumpers operating lucrative businesses by collecting refuse, rubble and even toxic waste to dump in parks, roadside, open spaces and rivers. As a result, the...
Engineering
Drakenstein waste-to-energy powers forward
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) recently awarded a grant to MBHE African Power, a South African renewable energy project developer, to support a waste-to-energy project in the Drakenstein Municipality in the Western Cape. The objective...
Consulting engineers face tough times ahead
The Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Bi-annual Economic and Capacity Survey for the period July to December 2015, just released indicates that times are tough and getting tougher with industry confidence the lowest in 16 years. The report...
Engineering students throw down in project showdown
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) recently held the second National Investigative Project Showdown for South African universities’ civil engineering departments in Johannesburg. The civil engineering university research and...
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