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Utility in IT upgrade

25th October 2002 Water utility Rand Water was recently looking for reliable, high-speed connectivity between eight sites, and Bytes Communication Systems was given the challenge of managing and installing the upgrade. →

The fluid ways of water

By: Kelvin Kemm 25th October 2002 I saw a news item on television in which Glenfiddich whiskey was selling for amazing prices at an auction. →

Infrastructure is key to intra-African trade

25th October 2002 WHILE trade between European countries accounts for about 80% of their total gross domestic product, Africans are not trading with each other as much as they could, said acting chief operating officer of Trade and Investment South Africa Ismail Dockrat at the Safcec convention held in... →

Moz dam cuts electricity to SA

18th October 2002 Mozambican hydroelectric power generator Hidroelectrica do Cahora Bassa (HCB) has cut off a 750-megawatt daily supply to South African monopoly supplier Eskom, after the two disputed the price that should be paid for the electricity. →

World Bank backs $39m power, water project in Chad

By: Martin Czernowalow 17th October 2002 The World Bank has agreed to back a $39-million electricity and water-supply upgrade project in Chad, which would prevent a possible collapse of the services in that country. →

Remote water, lights metering tech developed

By: Zonika Botha 11th October 2002 Pretoria-based company Grintek Energy Technologies has developed an integrated service management system (ISMS) which is capable of executing remote water and electricity meter reading on a real-time basis. →

Providing a solution to the Thames wastewater problem

11th October 2002 Historically, wastewater from the Docklands development area in London, UK, had been discharged directly into the Thames River and tidal flow had been relied upon to disperse effluent. →

Dams: essential growth or damning development

By: Deborah Spicer 7th October 2002 Discussions around the Skuifraam dam in the Western Cape are focused on many of the elements of the large-scale dam debate that has occupied the world's attention for the last 15 years. →

Dams: essential for African growth or damning development?

By: Deborah Spicer 4th October 2002 Discussions around the Skuifraam dam in the Western Cape are focused on many of the elements of the large-scale dam debate that has occupied the world’s attention for the last 15 years. →

Environmental activism or ecoterrorism?

By: Irma Venter 4th October 2002 A Chilean environmentalist tells Engineering News about his life’s work, and and why he believes privatisation is not neccesarily the answer to a developing country’s economic woes. →

Water privatisation misunderstood -Kasrils

By: Deborah Spicer 4th October 2002 The water privatisation debate in South Africa had protesters chanting slogans such as “South Africa is not for sale to G8” and “Lesotho water is not for sale” at a meeting on water privatisation at last month’s Joburg summit. →

Water resource strategy released for comment

By: Martin Czernowalow 1st October 2002 The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has released a ‘Proposed National Water Resource Strategy’ for comment on August 8, and said the strategy could affect the way in which everyone in South Africa uses and values water. →

Steel group in court over pollution claims

1st October 2002 A South African High Court began hearing on Monday an application by families seeking a court order to stop giant steel producer Iscor from allegedly polluting their underground water sources. →

E20-million for health, education and infrastructure

By: vanessa vasques 27th September 2002 The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), the French Development Agency, has been involved with projects and programmes in South Africa since 1994, with a mandate to enhance the standard of living of poor communities by giving them access to essential services, such as water and sanitation,... →

Grants available for pollution busters

By: Deborah Spicer 27th September 2002 Local authorities interested in reducing pollution from settlements will be able to apply to the Development Bank of South Africa, for technical grants, and the Consolidated Municipal Infrastructure Plan, for capacity-building grants, from January, informs Manda Hinsch, the Department of Water... →

Big investment needed to meet world electricity backlog

By: Deborah Spicer 20th September 2002 A United Nations Foundation-sponsored programme to combat water wastage in eight African cities has shown such impressive results that a similar programme will be launched in Asia. →

Japan grants Malawi $4,5m for water project

By: Marcel Chimwala 20th September 2002 The government of Japan has provided a $4,5-million grant to the Malawi government for a ground water development project in Malawi's central districts of Lilongwe and Dedza. →

Groundwater could be key to Cape water supply

18th September 2002 Groundwater can play a major role in ensuring Cape Town has an adequate supply of water in the future and a five-year study has been commissioned to assess the feasibility of developing local aquifers (a sub-surface geological formation capable of storing and transporting usable quantities of... →

An environmental study shows negligible impact on groundwater

13th September 2002 Concern for the protection of the environment at the Caltex refinery in Milnerton, Cape Town, is leading to action to ensure the environment is not being contaminated by refinery operations. →

South-South water partnership launched

By: Deborah Spicer 13th September 2002 Links between South Africa and Brazil became stronger in September, when two local water utilities signed a partnership agreement with three Brazilian water-service providing organisations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. →

Joburg water utility plans new sewer pipeline

9th September 2002 Johannesburg Water, the water and sanitation service provider for the city of Johannesburg, has plans to construct a new sewer pipeline in the north of the city to accommodate the rapid development and growth. →

Water agencies need mending, not privatising

By: Seeraj Mohamed 6th September 2002 Water is a basic necessity. Everyone should have the right to an adequate supply of clean water. →

EU offers big water, sanitation support

6th September 2002 The European Union (EU) has launched a water initiative, aimed at helping millions of poor people in Africa and Asia gain access to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities. →

UK provides R330m for SA water projects

5th September 2002 In a joint statement on Monday, the UK government’s Department for International Development (DIFD) and the SA government’s Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), announced the extension of a comprehensive water and forestry development programme, worth →

Okavango basin management plan underway

5th September 2002 The government of Botswana, earlier this week signed an agreement with IUCN - The World Conservation Union – to work together on the improved management of water resources. →

2004 a pivotal year for waste management in South Africa

By: candice haase 30th August 2002 The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry’s is in the initial phases of three projects that will assist in appropriately managing sources of waste and disposal practices. →

Water security key issue at Joburg summit

29th August 2002 Water security will be a key issue at the UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development, under way in Johannesburg until September 4. →

Water disease could kill 76m by 2020 – report

20th August 2002 More than 76-million people, mainly children, will die from water-related diseases by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to clean up the planet's water supplies, according to a report issued on Friday. →

Experts, industry want $25-bn a year for water

19th August 2002 Additional investments of at least $25-billion must be made each year to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015, industry representatives and environmental experts said last week. →

Geographic info system planned for SA farmers

By: candice haase 16th August 2002 The development of a geographic information system (GIS) as the foundation for precision farming is a dream of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC). →

GM foods safer than water, says association

16th August 2002 The warning sounded by University of the Western Cape’s Prof Winston Hyde in media reports that genetically modified (GM) crops are dangerous and present a health hazard is repudiated as unfounded by AfricaBio executive director Dr Jocelyn Webster. →

Better water access key to poverty fight – experts

14th August 2002 Efforts to halve the number of people worldwide living in poverty by 2015 will fail unless access to clean water is radically improved, a group of leading scientists and politicians has said. →

S African tanks bound for a Zanzibar sewage plant

By: candice haase 9th August 2002 East Rand-based vessel and tank manufacturer Famsystems has been awarded a R1,5-million contract to design, manufacture, supply, install and commission tanks for a sewage plant in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania. →

Restructuring allows company stronger regional focus

9th August 2002 The recent restructuring of the top management of the 81-year-old consulting engineering group, Knight Pi →

State praised for biotech focus

By: Irma Venter 2nd August 2002 Government’s focus on biotechnology as an important future technology in South Africa is considered a good move by everybody involved, says Highveld Biological MD Dr Elke Bey. →

Innovative technology portends well for oxygen-poor SA water

26th July 2002 Environmental technology designed to re-oxygenate impounded water resources, being hailed as a major breakthrough in the UK and now in China, bodes well for the future environmental well-being of South Africa’s own oxygen-poor impounded water, says Dr Dave Ossin of Afrox. →

SA acid water treatment solution is in demand

26th July 2002 The treatment of acid water from mining processes is an ongoing challenge in the mining industry. →

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