According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount of food produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, one in every seven people in...
The refuse removal workers in Germiston resumed work on Monday, 15 April, after the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality on Friday, 12 April rolled out its contingency plan to clear the refuse removal backlog in the Germiston area created by the...
High school students Vera Castro and Nancy Contreras take part in raising climate change awareness by asking people what their carbon footprint is. Produced by Fairview High School Video Lab.
Lifenets providing invaluable boreholes for communities in Africa.
Consultants involved in the design and specification of integrated solutions for the optimisation of water utilities can now benefit from dedicated support in the design of intelligent architectures. Global specialist in energy management,...
Deputy Minister of Water Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, recently shared a list of water saving tips, techniques and practices with the community in Carnarvon in the Kareeberg Local Municipality in the Northern Cape, when she launched her “war on...
Lafarge South Africa has announced the repositioning of the international Lafarge Group’s global master brand to reflect the increasing shift to urbanisation taking place throughout the world. The new brand signature ‘Building better cities’...
Pictured: Darryll Killian, partner, SRK Consuliting There is a common thread running through South African discourse of late, from President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2013 Budget Speech. That link...
Pictured: John Grill, WorleyParsons chairman; Digby Glover, WorleyParsons TWP COO; Nigel Townshend, WorleyParsons executive director Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Mining and Precious Metals; and Andrew Wood, WorleyParsons chief executive officer A...