One year on from the height of the 2017/18 Cape Town water crisis, a collective of academics and practitioners have launched a unique new initiative to document and capture key learnings from the water shortage that came close to being a...
Transnet has approved further studies into the establishment of a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) plant at the Port of Cape Town’s Quay 700 area. Cape Town remains a water scarce region, having just emerged from its worst drought since 1904....
Up to 50% of the annual inflows into two of South Africa’s important dams could be used up by alien plants over a period of 45 years, if they are left uncleared. This warning about the Western Cape’s Berg River Dam catchment and Limpopo’s De Hoop...
Despite declining dam levels from the warm summer weather the City of Cape Town says water consumption has remained on the conservative side for the past month. The City says the average water usage, which has remained under 600 million litres of...
Trenchless techniques have many advantages over conventional open-cut trenching methods. Opening the 2018 International No-Dig Conference in Cape Town, Sam Efrat, president of the Southern African Society for Trenchless Technology (SASTT)...
Presenting the keynote address at the 2018 International No-Dig South Africa conference, Neil van Rooyen, a SASTT board member and director at Chrysalis Projects, unpacked the various elements for the expansion of the trenchless industry, detailing...
The City of Cape Town adopted the use of trenchless technology as early as the mid-1990s. Speaking at the opening of the 2018 International No-Dig South Africa conference held in Cape Town earlier this year, Cape Town deputy mayor Ian Neilson...
The City of Cape Town is partnering with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Southern Africa Energy Program (SAEP) to investigate appropriate mechanisms to unlock access to solar energy for more of Cape Town’s...
National government has committed a further R553 million to water projects in the City of Cape Town. According to Cape Town Mayor, Patricia De Lille the funds will be used for the Cape Flats, Atlantis, and Table Mountain Group Aquifer recharge...
