Grey water is the solution to the problems relating to demand and supply management of water not only in South Africa, but worldwide. Supply management of water is water supplied by the municipality to your doorstep. The supply of water is severely stressed in South Africa. In simple terms, we do not have any more [...]
A water footprint is quite simply the volume of water used. At the individual level, this is expressed in litres. But at the national level, this becomes complex – The water footprint of a nation is equal to the use of domestic water resources, minus the virtual water export flows, plus the virtual water import [...]
Yolandi Groenewald M&G South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned that the world was heading for ecological disaster. The latest [...]
The wise management of South Africa’s water resources is one of the most decisive factors that will affect the social and economic development of our country and the wellbeing of all our people, over the next 20 years. This challenge has brought together South Africa’s leading financial investment company and South Africa’s leading environmental NGO [...]
Let’s define “bear shaving” as the efforts we go to do deal with the symptoms of a problem instead of addressing the cause of the problem. A rare Japanese PSA (now long lost to the copyright gods) showed a girl shaving a bear so it could deal with global warming (here’s a lesser one)… Example: [...]
A “mind boggling” 3.3 billion litres of water is being lost every day from pipes across Britain, new figures reveal. The amount – equivalent to more than 1,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools – leaked out of the water network every day in 2007/08. The Liberal Democrats, who obtained the figures, want to impose tough fines on [...]
Winning on the Uphills Interesting business lesson learned on a bicycle: it’s very difficult to improve your performance on the downhills. I used to dread the uphill parts of my ride. On a recumbent bike, they’re particularly difficult. So I’d slog through, barely surviving, looking forward to the superspeedy downhill parts. Unfortunately, I had a [...]
Sewage as well as animal blood and offcuts are apparently being dumped into the Vaal River, The Weekender reported on Saturday. An abbatoir in Frankfort was pumping animal blood and offcuts into its evaporation dam which was in turn seeping into the Vaal River, Freedom Front Plus Mafube municipality councillor Peter van der Westhuizen said. [...]
