Tag: Water
City to fast-track water use licences
Critical Water Use License Applications submitted by the City of Cape Town are being assessed and given priority as a further step in ensuring...
Cape Town introduces level 5 water restrictions
With immediate effect, the City of Cape Town will be taking a number of new actions to drive down water consumption, including the introduction...
Crisis puts waste water treatment under the spotlight
There are many opportunities for the treatment of waste water in South Africa, but the uptake of these opportunities has been slow, according to...
Dam levels continue to take a blow
As dam levels continue to decrease, the Department of Water and Sanitation has urged people to use water sparingly and always monitor water usage.
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Women key to water master plan
Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says women are important for the development of an integrated and coherent National Water and Sanitation Master Plan.
Minister Mokonyane...
Advancing water resilience: getting to an additional 500 million litres of new water a...
New water augmentation
The City has commenced procuring and commissioning, in a staged way, various augmentation schemes with the intention of making available up to...
Water and power efficiency walk hand in hand
South African mining companies can manage water usage as part of a wider, integrated strategy for sustainable business, writes Stephen Austin, independent energy advisor to...
Water scarcity drives a new wave of practices in Cape Winelands
The practice of cultivating grasses such as wheat, nearly 10,000 years ago, laid the foundations of today’s large urbanized communities. And strangely enough, traditional...
Powering water solutions
There are increasingly audible murmurings that bold investment company PSG Group is backing Bellville-based Energy Partners to the hilt. PSG owns 63% of Energy...
Why is Cape Town not looking to desalination plants?
The city's catchment area normally gets most of its rain in winter, yet winter is almost over - and dam levels currently stand at only about...
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