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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...
Inspiring, innovative and intelligent
Although the water industry is still a male dominated field, this dynamic is changing as more women, like Aurecon associate Teboho Mofokeng, prove their worth on larger scale projects. Is it difficult? Yes, but isn’t anything worth doing...
Sustainable service solutions
Water Solutions Southern Africa (WSSA) has taken the lead role in developing and implementing private sector participation within the water sector in Southern Africa, WSSA’s director, Sylvia Tshivhunge, tells Chantelle Mattheus. This has been...
John Hunt, MD of Mpact Recycling, part of the Mpact Group
Why is recycling key to sustainable, green working environments? Recycling plays a vital role in ensuring offices throughout South Africa are able to contribute to sustainable development in South Africa. What role does Mpact play in the recycling...
What is the current water quality situation in South Africa
Slowly but surely, South Africans are being forced to contemplate the inconvenient truth of water being on the endangered list. The increasingly limited access to this once plentiful resource is resulting in water taking centre stage in all our...
Leading expertise
Pictured: The MBR plant applies the well-established activated sludge process to treat wastewater (bioreactor filled with sludge) The perception that wastewater treatment is the “less attractive” cousin to the delivery of potable water is slowly...
Here today, reused
Pictured: Mossel Bay desalination plant during construction Royal HaskoningDHV, leading the future of sustainable water Growing populations, increasing urbanisation and industrial growth is placing severe stress on existing surface and groundwater...
Sustainability
Avon Power Plant officially online
The independent Avon Peaking Power gas turbine open cycle power plant near Durban is officially online, its developers announced at the recent POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa conference and exhibition at the Sandton Convention Centre....
Lucy in the smog with diamonds
1.6-Million people die each year of air pollution in China. The country’s smog levels pose a major threat to public health to the extent that now, even children are suffering from lung cancer. These conditions have driven Dutch designer and...
Going Green in Public Facilities – Conference preview
By Songo Didiza* We are pleased to introduce the Green Building Design Group (GreenBDG), a proudly South African black managed and controlled non for profit organisation that was established in 2016. The GreenBDG offers an open platform for the...
Water Risk Filter launched to manage business risk
The ongoing drought in South Africa has led to a heightened awareness of the importance of water, and businesses are under severe pressure to understand and respond to the risks related to this scarce but essential natural resource. To help...
Green Youth Indaba encourages plastics entrepreneurs
The National Recycling Forum (NRF) recently hosted a panel discussion at the 3rd Annual National Green Youth Indaba 2016 which took place at the Innovation Hub in Tshwane, Gauteng. More than 500 hand-picked pioneering youth and more than 50...
Environmental stewardship: Honouring recycling heroes pushing the environmental agenda forward
Currently a source of untapped potential, South Africa’s “green economy” is starting to reveal real opportunity within its supply chain. Innovative partnerships are proving key in terms of tapping into this potential however – as ABI has discovered...
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CESA calls on government to prioritise dependable vaccine roll-out
Ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) CEO Chris Campbell says there can be no doubt about the key deliverables which should be a national priority in the coming months. “An...
Infrastructure recovery hinges on urgent action, innovation
Hopes of a recovery in South Africa’s economic fortunes rely heavily on more infrastructure spending, but the Covid-19 pandemic is further complicating this difficult task; speed and ingenuity are now of the essence, according to SRK Consulting...
IRENA and African Development Bank partner to scale up renewable energy investments in Africa
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the African Development Bank have agreed to jointly support investment in low carbon energy projects, a move expected to advance Africa’s energy transition. The two entities signed a Declaration...
Water
Metro News
Cape Town launches city-wide clean-up campaign
The City of Cape Town has allocated an additional R115 million for clean-up operations as part of its efforts to maintain the beauty the mother city has become renowned for. This comes after calls from residents for the City to keep a lid on...
Ekurhuleni distances itself from bogus wheelie bin tender
The City of Ekurhuleni has issued a statement distancing itself from a bogus wheelie bin tender that has seen numerous entrepreneurs scammed out of money. The City explained that the 260ℓ wheelie bin tender claims to be supplied by a service...
EThekwini to upskill 200 plumbing and electrical artisans
The eThekwini Municipality is set to train 200 unemployed youth in plumbing and electrical work through the artisan Development Programme. This was announced at a recent Executive Committee meeting where the Municipality accepted grant funding of...
Waste
Engineering
Separating fracking science fiction from science fact
New developments are emerging in South Africa’s national conversation on using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology to release shale gas in the Karoo. These include the publication of the updated Regulations for Petroleum Exploration and...
Landfill 2015 to grapple with advances in the waste industry
Thought-leaders and waste industry experts will convene at the bi-annual Landfill conference themed “Advances in Waste Treatment and Engineered Landfill Environment”. The conference and exhibition, set to take place from 15 to 16 September 2015 at...
Waste industry experts to lead Landfill 2015
Organised by the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), the Landfill and Waste Treatment Interest Group (LAWTIG) and Gigsa, Landfill 2015 will offer delegates the opportunity to be at the forefront of the latest waste management...
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