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Due to growing water shortages, competition for water is likely to increase between the agricultural, electricity, and residential sectors. This could lead to conflicts over water. [...] We’re a water stressed country. We don’t have enough water resources to go around. Even once we get water in our managed infrastructure, nearly half of that leaks out of the system [...] Eskom on Wednesday said it was still revising its tariff increases before it makes any announcements. According to the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci), the original proposition was for an increase of up to 19 percent per annum. Earlier in 2012, the power utility proposed a new five-year plan of tariff increases [...] Eskom aims to reduce its water consumption by 260 billion litres a year by 2030. The utility said the alternative technologies used at its new power stations would reduce the water requirement to 270 billion litres by next year. The company would have needed 530 billion litres to operate its coal-fired stations had the new [...] Eskom might face difficulties in raising funds for its coal-fired projects in future if environmental organisations kept challenging decisions to fund coal plants, Econometrix’s chief economist, Azar Jammine, said yesterday. Jammine was reacting to the release of a report by the World Bank on Friday, which showed that water and environmental concerns regarding the coal-fired [...] IT will cost in the region of R300 million to remove alien vegetation from the Berg River that’s drastically affecting the water quality. [...] All SA’s coal-fired power stations require significant amounts of water. A 5000MW plant (about the size of Medupi) will use 60m m³ of water every year with wet cooling (that’s 2000l a second), but only 6m m ³ with dry cooling technology. [...] The CEO Water Mandate is an initiative that grew out of a partnership between the United Nations Global Compact, the Swedish Government and a group of committed companies and specialised orgnisations dealing with the issues of water scarcity and sanitation. [...] South Africa’s real water crisis is that the stuff is just too damn complicated. What do you think about when you worry about water? [...] |
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