The struggle for access to sufficient water in Africa is both a human rights issue and a development challenge, impacting on health, agricultural and economic activity, the educational opportunity of women and children and social stability and...
Water is undeniably a precious resource and WWF, through a partnership with Sanlam, are working to conserve our country’s freshwater ecosystems and natural resources. As part of these efforts, the Journey of Water campaign was launched at the end...
Global engineering consultancy firm SMEC is among the small minority of firms in South Africa that boasts appropriate skills and expertise in the design and application of trenchless technology in water and sewer infrastructure projects. SMEC...
It is anticipated that in the hotter, wetter and drier South Africa of the future, many things will go wrong. Water sources will evaporate. Malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever will thrive. Extreme weather and malnutrition could potentially...
Sasol and General Electric (GE) power and water have together developed new water technology that will clean waste water, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This new technology, known as Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor...
Plans to build a new desalination plant on the Gulf of Aqaba are moving forward. While critics argue that the US$1billion project, which aims to address a chronic water shortage and save the shrinking Dead Sea, is expensive and potentially...
African water companies are losing as much as 35% of their total production because of leaks, fraud and unpaid bills. This is the view of the African Water Association. As much as 50% of the water produced in some African nations is never accounted...
Tanzania is one of 18 African countries that are expected to experience a serious shortage of water by 2025 due to failure to protect water sources. The same situation has rendered a number of African countries unable to meet their water...
Artesian boreholes – which spontaneously discharge water without being pumped – are a common feature worldwide. However, the hydraulic testing of these boreholes, and estimating of aquifer properties (where groundwater occurs in reasonable...
