Having gained a unique perspective of the local water environment through serving as chief director of the Department of Water Affairs, Dr Harrison Pienaar joined the CSIR last year as competence area manager of the Ecosystems Services research...
For decades, knowledge of water quality between the treatment plant and the consumer’s tap was an impossible pipe dream. However, in 2006 Intellitect Water launched a new technology which turned that dream into reality and now, almost seven...
As we look back at 2012, it’s clear much has been done. Africa now has safe water for 800,000 people and HIV/AIDS care to 40,000 more. For that, we are truly thankful. The change is real. It’s happening…and it’s all because...
Esorfranki Geotechnical is poised to complete a curtain grouting subcontract awarded by Norland Construction at the Cengane Dam in the Eastern Cape. The construction of a new dam wall is planned as part of the OR Tambo District Municipality’s Upper...
Role players within the sphere of infrastructure delivery and construction should expect the parameters in which they have operated over the last three years to remain as certain as death and taxes during 2013, writes Richard Jansen van Vuuren. The...
The University of the Witwatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on one of the world’s intellectual leaders in chemical engineering, Prof. David Glasser, in the Wits Great Hall on 12 December 2012. Glasser was awarded a Doctor of Science in...
New to ASSTech’s product line up is the LLB-PTTFM 2000 portable ultrasonic transit time flowmeter, a flow and pressure measuring, data acquisition and transmission system specifically for water networks. Sourced from Italian developer BM...
eThekweni Municipality is tackling the challenge of providing sanitation and water to its rural and peri-urban communities through the provision of urine diversion toilet. The rollout began with a pilot project in uMzinyathiu, a peri-urban area...
At a prestigious ceremony held in Parkview Moyo Restaurant on 28 November 2012 a Water Research Commission (WRC)-funded research project was awarded for its excellence in public participation. The first Southern African Core Values Awards for...
