The much awaited Green Drop Report has finally been made public. I am not astounded by the report as I suspected the countries sewage systems to be highly inadequate. The official findings of the report are shocking and raises many questions. What would it take to raise public awareness of a smelly business,one the [...]
 Water Rhapsody Conservation Systems are the leaders in Greywater garden irrigation and Rainwater Harvesting systems in South Africa. Established in 1994 with offices nation wide and over 3500 installations Water Rhapsody will be there to secure your water concerns.Contact Water Rhapsody. | Even after Eskom received its controversial loan from the world bank to build the coal burning coal plant Medupi,it is now applying for carbon credits. Coal power plant ESKOM wants to apply for carbon credits for Medupi,its planned coal- fired power station in Limpopo,under the United Nations (UN) Clean Development [...] With very few exceptions all Western Cape Dam levels are still dropping. Cape Town has only seen 3 rainy days this April and the weather forecast predicts yet another dry week with 0% chance precipitation. Is Cape Town entering a lower than average rainy season? Compared with last year’s average dam level of 55.9% the [...] The Department of Water Affairs’ Green Drop report,which surveys the state of South Africa’s sewage treatment works,is scheduled for release today. Municipal waste water services are suspected to be “far from acceptable” when compared to required national standards and international best practice. Blue-green algae bloom A failure to correctly treat waste water [...] When paper and glass recycling had just started I remember people avoiding recycling because they thought it was too much effort. For a while I was one of those “one-bin-does-it-all”kind of people too,too lazy to separate my waste. Luckily my perception has now changed and I realise the importance of recycling. For me [...] I have never been a big supporter of Eskom building yet another dirty coal fired power plant so I am glad to report that the country will be building two clean energy plants,one 100 MW wind farm and one 100 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. Concetrated Solap power Power utility Eskom [...] Until recently I was unaware of the depth phytoplankton play in recycling carbon dioxide (CO2). I knew that as plants they capture CO2 though photosynthesis and produce oxygen. What I never thought of was what happened to that carbon once the oxygen molecules had been released. Much like any plant,phytoplankton uses the carbon molecule [...] Melting ice caps in the Arctic are causing more methane to be released. Is this the start of a giant snowball effect for climate change? Methane is considered to be a much worse Green House Gas than CO2. A team of scientists confirms that sea-bottom and surface waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf are [...] Earth Day,the day set aside globally to appreciate our planet and all the bounty and wonder it has to offer,provides an opportunity to consider what we as individuals,or as representatives of organizations,can contribute to the ecological health and vitality of the Blue Planet. While we have done much to protect our [...] The worlds leading wind power generation countries are looking at ways to shed electricity as wind farms produce too much power. As the amount of electricity generated from wind mills depend on the strength of the wind,the generated electricity fluctuates. This fluctuating is causing utility companies to pay consumers when generation is high. [...] |   |
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