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ABB Water South Africa JOYCE Moganedi, Sales Manager Power and Water at ABB Energy Industries, South Africa explains why it is critical for the nation’s water industry to embrace automation and technology to obtain higher efficiencies from their existing infrastructure and operate in a smarter and more sustainable way. South Africa had a big wake up call two years ago when Cape Town came perilously close to being the first major global city to run out of drinkable water. The region was suffe...

Nelson Mandela Bay’s director of water and sanitation, Barry Martin, looked stressed as he read from the list in front of him. He is dealing with the extreme water crisis in the metro: 1 July, 1 August, 1 October, 1 December. These are the projected dates when, absent some serious rainfall, t...

Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) staff members empty the ballot box at the Brixton Recreational Centre voting station in Brixton, Johannesburg. (Michele Spatari / AFP) Heading to the polls later this year, residents have one of the most important decisions to make. If we are to properly recover from the pandemic and look toward a more hopeful future, the decision isnt just about loyalty to one brand, writes  DA Western Cape Committee Spokesperson on Local Government,�...

The BVI Beacon Tourism in the quarantine era It had been over a year since I’d last travelled to the United States. I normally make the trip twice a year, and I’d never missed Christmas in my home … It had been over a year since I’d last travelled to the United States. I normally make the trip twice a year, and I’d never missed Christmas in my home state of Minnesota in my entire life. Covid-19 changed all that, of course, and with the pandemic still raging in December, i...

Mobile games are incredibly popular and are played by millions of people globally. However, there comes a point where growth of a mobile game plateaus and it might be time to bring in a brand new audience. During our GI Live: Online event last week, Xsollas director of business development for Europe, Miikka Luotio, discussed the challenges and benefits of bringing mobile games to other platforms -- with PC highlighted as perhaps the most beneficial. Luotio highlighted three key challenges tha...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Interactions of a single driver for each determinant of a risk, namely hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and response to climate change. view more  Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team of 21 climate risk scholars to better understand and inform decision making around climate change risks in Africa and globally by examining how the drivers of risk interact. Their work extends on exist...

The Kouga Municipality together with the Kouga Business Forum (KBF), has started a water drive to aid the drought-stricken communities of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape. Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks, said in a statement that the towns of Hankey and Patensie has been hardest hit. “The Kouga municipal region is in the grips of a devastating drought. The towns of Hankey and Patensie have been hit the hardest as they depend completely on the Kouga Dam for potable water.” T...

Why irrigating your garden with laundry greywater is a bad idea By Supplied Share For the sake of the soil in which your plants must grow and thrive, think twice before deciding to re-use laundry greywater in your garden. If you really want to use it as part of your greywater system, at least then chose liquid washing detergent over washing powder, as it still degrades the soil, but not as much. That is the message from soil scientists at Stellenbosch University, who published the first ever c...

This “stripping effect” causes clay particles in the soil to disperse, blocks soil pores and in turn causes a crust to form on the surface that seals the soil. “It becomes difficult for water to soak into soils and increases run-off when it rains or when you water your garden. In essence you are then actually wasting water, because in time very little water gets to penetrate into the soil to reach plant roots,” said Hardie. The blocking of soil pores also decreases the water holding cap...