Electronic waste is becoming an increasing problem worldwide and Africa has become the dumping ground. The Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative has predicted that e-waste will grow by a third between 2012 and 2017. Seven kilograms of...
Jacob Zuma has a tough job. It is election year and, under a cloud of controversy, it is up to him to carry the ANC’s message of jobs, housing and discipline. In his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement on President Zuma’s administration last year,...
Royal HaskoningDHV in been placed in 9th in Africa by Engineering News-Record (ENR). The international consultancy, engineering and project management service provider, with its headquarters in the Netherlands, employs 7 000 staff members in 100...
The Angolan government during 2013 opened over 100 railway stations as part of a project to rebuild the country’s rail network, according to a statement issued in Luanda. Angolan news agency Angop also reported that in Lobito municipality two docks...
Japanese electronics company Toshiba is purchasing a 26% stake in Indian wastewater management company UEM India. The UEM Group which specialises in providing turnkey services in water and wastewater collection, treatment and disposal facilities...
The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) has laid criminal charges against the owners of a fertiliser company after the Selati River, a tributary of the Olifants River, near the Kruger National Park was polluted. Thousands of fish...
Africans hold largely negative views about their governments’ performance on key services such as the delivery of water and maintaining sanitary conditions. This is according to anew report from Afrobarometer.The report entitled What People Want...
by Arish Sohan, laboratory analyst, and Jody Naicker, technical assistant, Talbot & Talbot Laboratories. Any form of wastewater produced from process operations such as manufacturing and agriculture are referred to as “Industrial wastewater”....
At the beginning of 2012, construction commenced on Phase 2B of the augmentation of Pretoria’s Moreleta Spruit Outfall Sewer network. The City of Tshwane contracted Aurecon, a global engineering company, to design and plan this substantial project....
