 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. | Questions for Shell at the proposed meeting 25th March 2011 Dear Shell,I have done a study of other frackers,and I see no difference between you and others elsewhere worldwide,what with the lack of transparency and downright lies. Fracking in our Karoo is not something that we simply don’t want. We are not [...] It is advised that household use alternative sources of water,including greywater to irrigate gardens and to conserve water where possible. It should be encouraged that all communities start practicing water saving behaviours. [...] it can take centuries,or even millennia,for groundwater levels to be replenished naturally. The Great Artesian Basin in Australia has water that is two million years old! [...] Which lies atop a vast –and evidently gassy –shale formation. They’re lining up for it! Shell International and oil and gas company Falcon already have a licence to scout for gas. And potentially flood the Karoo’s groundwater with tasty chemicals. [...] depending on the quality of rainfall either ground water (aquifers) or dam recharge is favoured. Even as our dams might be close to full,our underground water supplies might not be. [...] Beaufort West will start using recycled sewage water when the town’s direct water reclamation plant starts operating next week. [...] At the start of December it is unusual for a borehole to have run dry,or is it? It has already happened to one Bergvliet property that I know of. After receiving a distressed message for a Bergvliet resident that her borehole had run dry she was wanting to know what her options were. It [...] It is only a matter of time before boreholes and wellpoints start drying up and force homeowner to search for alternative sources of water. [...] The state of the main dams supplying the Cape metropolitan area as compared to the five previous years is reflected in the table below. It is important to bear in mind that the time to save water is when there is water to save,and we should therefore not become complacent about our water saving efforts. [...] The rate at which these critical groundwater aquifers are being sucked dry doubled between 1960 and 2000. The trend,which contributes to the rise of sea levels,at the same time threatens the fresh water supplies around the globe. [...] |   |
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