International consultancy, engineering and project management service provider Royal HaskoningDHV is leading a consortium commissioned by Fondo Adaptación Colombia to rehabilitate the almost 400 year old and 120 km long Canal del Dique in Colombia,...
While the plight of hundreds of thousands of people in the country not having access to clean water and sanitation on a daily basis is common knowledge South Africa has reached a new and unforeseen dilemma – poor service delivery to private and...
There are big aspirations for Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, Inga III that is set to be built in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But analysts are sceptical that such an ambitious project will ever in fact be realised due to the project...
Industrial operations in Africa could detect and monitor hydrocarbon gas concentrations more effectively by adopting the Ultima OPIR-5 Open Path IR gas Detector. MSA Africa marketing manager for gas detection products, Robbie Taitz, points out that...
In 2008, Transnet Limited awarded the Veolia Water subsidiary, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa, a contract to design, build and commission a new reverse osmosis desalination plant at its iron ore terminal situated at the Port...
The multimillion-rand Western Aqueduct project is back on track following this week’s announcement that Cycad Pipelines has been selected as the successful contractor for the initial 7 km sector of the water pipeline between Inchanga Station and...
A sensitive wetland project necessitated a solution with a minimal site footprint and little or no excavation – the perfect opportunity to utilise trenchless alternatives. Current legislation limits the degradation of environmentally sensitive...
The Southern African Society for Trenchless Technology (SASTT) is now 21 years old, and with age has come a certain maturity for the society, SASTT honorary director, Joop van Wamelen, tells Chantelle Mattheus. “Over the past year, I have had the...
The basics behind the success of the popular hanging gardens at the Moyo restaurants in Cape Town are being studied by agronomy students at Stellenbosch University (SU) who are not only learning how to grow their own vertical aquaponics systems,...
