Tag: desalination
Ds500: simplified water treatment
THE Verderflex Ds500 metering and dosing pump with IoT simplifies water and wastewater treatment by providing an efficient solution for reverse osmosis, desalination, chemical dosing, and membrane technology. The pump accuracy...
Don’t wait, desalinate: A new approach to water purification
By Jenna Kurtzweil, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
TWO-THIRDS of the Earth's surface is awash with the stuff, but water—specifically, the clean and drinkable kind—is inaccessible to billions of people.
A new purification...
Feasibility studies into permanent desalination making progress
The City of Cape Town is currently undertaking an ambitious New Water Programme to increase available water by an additional 300 million litres per day from alternative sources like desalination to...
Desalination must be part of South Africa’s water supply solution
SOUTH Africa is facing a deepening water crisis. The 2030 Water Resources Group predicts that based on our burgeoning population, economic growth forecasts and current water use efficiency, the country’s demand for...
Three Cape Town desalination plants to deliver water in May
For over a year now, residents of Cape Town have heard about the city’s big plans for three desalination plants. Of course, they would take time to build, but things also ran a...
Koeberg nuclear power station launches a water desalination plant
The Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station situated in Cape Town has today launched a mobile groundwater desalination plant, which will take care of the station’s water needs.
The Koeberg's desalination plant...
SA’s biggest hotelier plans own Cape Town water supply
Tsogo Sun Holdings plans to build a desalination plant that will help supply its Cape Town hotels with their own water, shielding guests of South Africa’s biggest hotel and casino operator from...
Desalination now both viable and necessary in coastal towns
The policy of taking water from the agricultural areas of the country and flushing it down city toilets is unsustainable, especially in coastal areas, says the Cape Chamber of Commerce and...
V&A will have their very own desalination
Listed Growthpoint and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the equal joint owners of the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront, aim to have a desalination plant operational by next year to provide...
CT hopes to have three desalination plants running by March
The City of Cape Town says it will bring three desalination plants online in the first quarter of this year.
Construction at the Monwabisi, Strandfontein and V&A Waterfront desalination projects are currently...
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