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Reducing Risk and Building Trust with Bureau Veritas
A world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, Bureau Veritas operates in agri-food, industry, commodities as well as building and infrastructure markets. Water is a critical resource across all these sectors, and as its quality declines, water...
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Tsebo Facilities Management Champions Water Conservation in the Workplace
Multiple provinces in the country are grappling with deteriorating water quality and increasingly frequent and lengthy disruptions to water supply. And as a workplace management solutions provider, Tsebo is tackling this reality head-on. “Most of our customers within...
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A New Defender Emerges To Tackle Water Pollution
“Water pollution in South Africa has worsened, and it has worsened largely due to the collapse of municipal governance. By not properly planning for, operating, maintaining or building water and sanitation infrastructure, raw sewage is running down some streets in...
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Can Municipalities Keep The Water Flowing?
South Africa’s growing urbanisation is straining the current water infrastructure, necessitating sustainable water. Having a reliable water supply is tied to social stability, and disruptions undermine community well-being as well as environmental...
Technical response teams to fix water supply following Hammanskraal cholera outbreak
Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu, has noted, with great concern, the outbreak of Cholera in Hammanskraal and conveys his condolences to families who have lost their loved ones due to the outbreak. Mchunu also wishes a speedy recovery to...
DWS reinforce commitment for equitable water supply and dignified sanitation
The two Deputy Ministers for the Department of Water and Sanitation, David Mahlobo and Judith Tshabalala have reinforced the government’s commitment of ensuring equitable water supply and dignified sanitation for all, as mandated by the...
Draft regulations on access and recreational use of state-owned dams
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) published a notice for comments on draft regulations on Government Gazette Notice No. 48294 on 24 March 2023, opening a 60-day window for interested parties and individuals to submit written comments....
Thermoplastic pipe material classification and stiffness
Classification of the thermoplastic material and pipe stiffness is important for selecting the right material for an application, determining the load-bearing capacity, and predicting the long-term performance of the pipe. Every thermoplastic...
Load shedding adds last straws to looming SA water crisis but there is hope
South Africa is approaching a water crisis as load shedding adds undue pressure to water and wastewater treatment systems already on the verge of collapse. However, there is still hope that South Africans can work together to find solutions. This...
Doing more for our Asphalt industry
The Society for Asphalt Technology (SAT) has bounced back strongly from the pandemic-induced isolation with new leadership, fresh ideas and a revived passion for networking. We have learned a lot about adapting to change in the past few years and...
Sustainability
Investors back South Africa’s green plans
The idea that renewable energy could ultimately be more cost-efficient than conventional energy is gaining momentum. South Africa’s call to global investors to assist its renewable energy programme – which is trailing the rest of the...
GIBB appoints Environmental Legal Practitioner
Consulting engineering company, GIBB has appointed Tanya Faber, an Environmental Assessment Practitioner with 13 years of experience to the position of Environmental Legal Practitioner. Faber has over six years of experience with Environmental...
SA’s solar water heating programme to spend R4.5 billion
Changes have been announced to South Africa’s the national solar water heating (SWH) programme. The model will move from a rebate model to a government funded fiscus model that will involve a R4.5 billion spend over three years to achieve the...
Investors highly exposed to climate change and freshwater risks
A new report released today by WWF-South Africa (WWF-SA) and WWF-UK, in collaboration with Carbon Tracker, Trucost, SinCo and the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF), shows that institutional investors are failing to systematically factor in...
Water scarcity, rising costs take toll on farmers
Dwindling profitability and water scarcity have left South Africa with less than two-thirds of the number of food-producing farms it had in the early 1990s, says the latest agricultural trends report by the World Wide Fund for Nature in South...
Tackling carbon and environmental tax
Caption: Jayne Mammatt, the associate director of sustainability and integrated reporting at PricewaterhouseCoopers RĕSource hosted a one-day seminar yesterday, November 15, on Preparing for Carbon and Environmental Taxes. The day was a roaring...
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Restaurants chains are increasingly relying on polystyrene packaging
Restaurants and fast food chains are increasingly relying on polystyrene packaging to keep their food hot, hygienic and fresh now that the sale of hot food for home delivery is permitted under Level 4 restrictions. According to Adri Spangenberg,...
Bargaining Council for Civil Engineering waives April and May levies
The Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI) took an unprecedented step in April 2020 when the Council announced that it would waive the BCCEI administration and dispute levy contributions for that month. In another move aimed...
Pressured construction sector seeks relief funds, opportunities
South Africa’s construction sector urgently needs support and an enabling regulatory environment to help it survive the COVID-19 lockdown crisis, on top of the challenges it was already facing. This is according to industry stakeholders who were...
Metro News
Ekurhuleni mayor commitment to accelerated service delivery
Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina says his office intents to maintain the moment of rapid, efficient and quality service delivery. Outlining the City’s administrative trajectory for the 2018/19 financial year to council this week Masina emphasises...
EThekwini’s waste woes worsen
The eThekwini Municipality’s waste woes have gone from bad to worse with enraged waste contractors dumping rubbish on the N2 highway near Isipingo south of Durban. According to reports by the Daily News the contractors were protesting against...
Cape Town turns to smart water solutions
The City of Cape Town is pursuing smart water solutions in an effort to improve its water management ability. The municipality is set to rollout two applications (apps) that combine intelligent water infrastructure with data analytics to yield...
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