Tag: desalination
Have your say on City exploring external options for its permanent desalination plant
As part of its feasibility study, the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate is calling on the public to comment on the proposal to implement...
Spotlight on City’s desalination plans at Energy Water Waste Forum
The City of Cape Town, alongside industry leaders and experts, recently hosted an Energy Water Waste Forum (EWWF) event focusing on the New Water...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...