The Mount Pleasant-based organisation, Water Our Thirsty World, has been quite busy over the last couple of months. Water Our Thirsty World is focused on delivering chlorination systems to countries that lie in the ’10/40 Window’, which...
East African Community (EAC) Secretary General, Dr Richard Sezibera, has said that he has been impressed by the progress of road works linking Arusha and Rwanda via Rusumo border. Dr Sezibera who recently undertook an on-spot assessment of the...
Shell’s proposal for hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ in the Karoo has invoked an angry response from local communities. Considering the demand for greener fuel technologies, the issue demands a rational and objective evaluation. Sidebar:...
Reacting to the Auditor General’s (AG) report on local government last Tuesday, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it painted a grim picture of incompetence, maladministration and waste of public money. “Cosatu demands that there must be...
Growing prosperity and urbanisation could double the volume of municipal solid waste annually by 2025, challenging environmental and public health management in the world’s cities, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute...
Port operator Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), a division of freight and logistics chain Transnet, has reserved R12.1 billion of its R33 billion budget over the next seven years for new equipment acquisition projects at Richards Bay, the country’s...
Senegal’s capital city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It’s at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It’s...
Subsurface pipeline construction and rehabilitation company Trenchless Technologies’ involvement in the replacement of 414 metres of sewer pipeline at the Isithebe Industrial Estate in the iLembe District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal saw...
For 23 years, Eskom has been recognising and rewarding excellence in energy efficiency with their prestigious eta Awards. These awards recognise exceptional effort in the more efficient use of energy by businesses, industry and even individuals,...
