Tag: Water
Here’s how the new water By-laws will affect you
Several Water By-laws were amended by the the City of Cape Town in May, and locals have been asked to familiarise themselves with the...
Digging deep to provide refreshing water at Engen False Bay 1Stop
Kobus Pretorius is a man with the customer at heart. As the owner of the Engen False Bay 1 Stop, Kobus has just installed a water desalinationplant that converts borehole water into purified water.
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Water map shows more households are saving
The City of Cape Town has praised water users for further decreasing their usage resulting in a drop in consumption over the last week. The...
Cape Town gets first desalinated water as dam levels drop again
A Strandfontein desalination plant produced 1.5 million litres on May 15, and has been supplying Cape Town’s water system every second day.
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Three Cape Town desalination plants to deliver water in May
For over a year now, residents of Cape Town have heard about the city’s big plans for three desalination plants. Of course, they would take time...
Cape Town uses more water even as dam levels are little changed
Water usage in Cape Town surged 6.7% over the past week even as storage in dams supplying the city barely increased.
Consumption rose...
Cape Town council bins planned 55% water tariff hike
The Cape Town City Council said on Monday, it would do away with plans for punitive water tariff increases of 55% for households who...
Cities around the world should prepare for running out of water, experts say
Cape Town’s recent water shortage crisis has raised global concern about the threat of water scarcity. The increasing risks have cast a spotlight on the...
Icebergs could float to the rescue of Cape Town water crisis
Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa's drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region's worst...
Clean water needed to defeat superbugs
The consumption of antibiotics has increased significantly over the past 15 years, according to a recent study. The increase occurred despite the international push to reduce the...
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