Tag: Desalination Plant
City of Cape Town progresses with plans for permanent desalination plant
IN the face of climate change, unpredictable rainfall and a growing population, the City’s plans for a permanent desalination plant is a key project in the City’s New Water Programme (NWP)...
City of Cape Town awards Tygerberg and Bellville campuses for efficient water management
THE City of Cape Town recently awarded a 5-star and 3-star rating to the Tygerberg and Bellville campuses for effective water management to ensure compliance with the Institution's water licensing conditions.
Implementing...
Luxury Cape Town hotel goes off water grid
Another luxury Cape Town hotel is joining the sustainability movement and has officially built its own desalination plant to enable the five-star establishment to go off the city’s water grid.
Granger Bay’s...
Revolutionary solar-power desalination plant could provide cheaper option, but it needs space
The new solar-powered desalination plant under construction at Witsand on the southern Cape coast will produce water at a cost of only R7 to R8 a kilolitre. This is less than...
France to help drought-hit Witsand with solar-power desalination plant
The French government and the Western Cape provincial government have committed to invest R9m on a 50-50 basis in the country’s first solar-powered desalination plant, at Witsand in the Hessaqua municipality.
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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.
False Bay 1 Stop is an Engen flagship highway site...
South Africa Gets First Solar Powered Desalination Plant
A full-size demonstration plant that can desalinate water using solar power is to be built in Witsand, a town 250 km east of Cape Town. Construction is due to begin in...
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.
Desalination process to help solve Cape water crisis....
Sea Harvest to Launch its Multi-million Rand Desalination Plant During National Water Week
The installation of Sea Harvest’s desalination plant has been completed and will be launched on Thursday, 22 March 2018. The multi-million rand investment, which includes desalination and reverse osmosis (RO), should...