Tag: drinking water
Drilling aquifers for a diversified water future for Cape Town
Investing in aquifers is one of the Water and Sanitation Directorate’s strategic interventions, towards introducing new water sources for the future. To prepare for...
Why 2024 Is The Year To Champion Water
By Chetan Mistry, Strategy and Marketing Manager at Xylem Africa
We already have solutions to water problems—it's time we started using more of them.
IT would...
Western Cape municipalities are making progress with safe drinking water according to latest Blue...
By Larry Claasen
The Western Cape municipalities and entities received a total of 15 Blue Drop Certifications in the 2023 Blue Drop Report as published...
Molteno and Newlands reservoirs ready to continue providing Cape Town with safe drinking water
The City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate recently successfully completed cleaning the Molteno and Newlands reservoirs as part of its annual proactive water maintenance programme....
50% of SA municipalities have poor drinking water quality – Blue Drop Watch report
THE 2023 Blue Drop Watch Report has revealed that there has been a deterioration in drinking water quality since the last report was done. Presenting the...
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...
City’s Water Treatment Plants excel at Blue Drop Watch Report
The City’s Faure and Steenbras Water Treatment Plants (WTP) excelled with above-average quality drinking water according to the Blue Drop Watch Report that was...
Determining drinking water safety is essential
Access to safe drinking water is a privilege not shared by many in Africa. Often, drinking water is contaminated - by damaged infrastructure and...
Plastics’ role in ensuring SA’s water infrastructure and security
"IN 2015, the world made a global commitment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6, which aim to ensure that everyone contributes to...
Problem with lime-scale in our water
SCALE, which is initially made up of Calcium and Magnesium crystals that have come out of solution in the water flow, due to pressure...