City actions R1,6bn budget to invest in water and sanitation over next year
Over the 2022/23 financial year, which started Friday, 1 July 2022, the City of Cape Town will be investing R1,6 billion in water and...
Winter rainfall boosts dam levels
While the overall outlook of the national water levels improved slightly week-on-week, the Department of Water and Sanitation reiterated its call to water users...
Xylem ‘plogs’ with youth to clean Strandfontein Beach and celebrate Manchester City FC’s Premier...
This youth month, Xylem Watermark, the social investment arm of global water solutions innovator Xylem, is proud to have supported a number of initiatives...
W Cape Government signs MoU with Denmark to improve wastewater treatment
A new research paper recently published by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, which looked at the impact of the 2015 to...
Department of Water and Sanitation’s R2 Billion underexpenditure concerns committee on water and sanitation
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation is extremely concerned by the reported under expenditure of R2.532 billion by the Department of Water and...
The climate emergency is happening Now – Wake Up says Institute of Risk Management
The Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) has expressed deep concern over the natural disasters in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, warning that...
Water and sanitation crisis – 2. Huge knock on effects to local manufacturing
Elsewhere in this issue the Editor discusses the crisis in water and sanitation and the possibility that a change of policy and individuals at...
Problem with lime-scale in our water
SCALE, which is initially made up of Calcium and Magnesium crystals that have come out of solution in the water flow, due to pressure...
Water and sanitation crisis 1 – some green shoots?
Following the recent Water Summit held in Midrand, CBN Editor Robin Hayes discusses some positive outcomes with Benoit Le Roy, founder and CEO of...
A ‘greener’ way to clean wastewater treatment filters
Specific nanoparticles are better than other methods at breaking down common contaminants.
MEMBRANE filters don’t require much energy to purify water, making them popular for...
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