2011-03-27 18:42 –Mariechen Waldner,City Press –Johannesburg –More than one third of 231 local municipalities do not have the capacity to perform their sanitation functions,a new study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has found. The report,discussed at a United Nations water conference in Cape Town,[...]
the mine shaft at Gold Reef City 2011-03-24 18:01 –Johannesburg –The acid mine water problem affects small parts of the North West,the Free State and the Northern Cape in addition to Gauteng,the province’s local government MEC said on Thursday “Gauteng is the heaviest affected province due to the mines [...] A clear view of a part of our rainwater system showing a water tank,manifold override and pressure vessel 2010-08-25 07:08 –Cape Town –The department of water affairs said it is confident a new pump station will be in place in time to stop acid mine water rising up below Johannesburg [...] 2010-08-17 15:22 –Duncan Alfreds Cape Town –The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has urged the government to generate 50% of electricity from renewable resources by 2030. “There’s more talking and too little doing,”WWF South Africa Climate Change Programme Manager Richard Worthington told News24. “There is much more doing than in [...] 2010-08-13 20:07 –Cape Town –How much water does it take to produce one cotton T-shirt? The answer,according to Water Neutral founder Pancho Ndebele,is a lot more than you might think. Writing in the latest edition of The Environmental Handbook:A Guide to Green Business in South Africa,launched in Cape [...] |  Against a global rainfall average of 870mm per year,South Africa receives a pitiful 450mm,making it the worlds 30th driest country. Water Rhapsody,with 15 years experience in water conservation,is number 1 in South Africa in Grey water recycling systems and Rainwater harvesting systems. |
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