With World Water Day only days away, cities around the world are announcing their plans to celebrate the day, under the theme Nature for Water. This year’s theme explores how we can use nature to overcome the water challenges of the 21st century...
Ryno Erdmann, Group CEO, Aquatico, discusses the importance of laboratory testing and the services Aquatico has to offer. Tell me about Aquatico and the laboratory services you offer the water sector. RE Aquatico is an established environmental...
Phela Ramoeli, SADC Secretariat Head of Water Division, speaks about water quality and industrialisation at the 7th SADC River Basin Organisation Workshop at The Vaal, South Africa. Source: Global Water Partnership Southern Africa
Water quality management challenges are being tackled, the department of water and sanitation said. The department hosted the Integrated Water Quality Management (IWQM) symposium last week to create awareness about South Africa’s pressing water...
A gap in the market has presented itself to experts in the water and wastewater treatment sectors. With municipalities across the country experiencing challenges with broken and/or ageing water infrastructure, and with only a limited amount of...
The highly anticipated 2014 Blue Drop report has been released. The report indicates a reduction of 8% in the national average score from 87,6 % in 2012 to 79,6% in 2014. Despite this, the Department of Water and Sanitation maintains that South...
The organic clean-up of the largest freshwater lake in the Nelson Mandela Bay region is yielding positive results, with the water body set to be “swimmer-ready” during the course of this year. In the past pollution levels North End Lake have made...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has expressed concern over the levels of sewer pollution in the country, mainly due to the poor state of South Africa’s waste water treatment works. The DWS reports that it has encountered high levels of...
The Department of Water and Sanitation has initiated an independent conditional assessment of some the Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) that discharge their final effluent into the Vaal River. The condition assessment audit was initiated as a...
