 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. | 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 [...] Hong Kong may enjoy a high rain falls but this highly populated city is looking at ways to recycle their dwindling water supply. This dwindling fresh water supply is a challenge that many great cities are waking up to as the demand for fresh water is increasing and fewer sewage treatment plants are able to [...] The Department of Water Affairs is yet to announce which of South Africas waste water treatment works have been awarded green drop status. This report on our waste water treatment works is long overdue. There have been previous reports speculating that as little as 3% of our waste water treatment works comply with the standards [...] The issue surrounding South Africa’s wasterwater treatment works have been in deep waters for several months as the Water Department’s “Green Drop”report has been over due for many months. Buyelwa Sonjica,minister of water affairs,says this sanitation report will be released on April 19 2010. This article from Timeslive.co.za Water minister Buyelwa [...] At a recent government infestructure development media breefing,no representitives from the Department of Water Affair were present. This behaviour adds fear to the concerns of waste water treatment plants around the country. This story from Times Live “Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica is on a state visit [to the United Kingdom] with the president…[...] Once the sewage settles and the foul water is processed in the typical wastewater treatment plant,left behind is a heaping helping of biomass,biomass (fuel) that is normally hauled off for disposal. But now the Regional District of Nanaimo (Canada) has set its eyes on it or should I say the methane in the [...] Few people know that we are charged twice for the water we use. The first time we pay for water is when it flows through the water meter into our homes. [...] Anthony Turton,vice-president of the International Water Resource Association,laid out 3 of the largest challenges facing South African water. [...] What makes wastewater the perfect environment for many of these micro-organisms is the high content of readily available organic matter and the water that separates them from the air,a potentially rich oxygen supply. [...] Carbon dioxide has been blamed for being the lead catalyst in global warming,however the latest scientific findings are showing that methane gas is much more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. It’s been calculated as being 60% worse than carbon dioxide. And that’s just part of the trouble. Methanogens are [...] |   |
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