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Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) – partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 03 September 2010
Millions of South Africans, especially those that are without piped water, are directly dependent on the rivers for their livelihoods. Rivers get polluted easily, partly because there is lack of education on the side of communities and business on the importance of keeping them healthy.
 Luvuvhu River is being polluted by wastes such as heavy metals, pesticides, chemical compounds from fertilisers, wastewater effluents and other solid waste. Our river systems are connected naturally and artificially, through interbasin transfer schemes, making the transportation of pollutants from one catchment area to another possible.
Thankfully the Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, has radically embarked on a campaign during the month of August, as part of women’s empowerment, to create awareness among South Africans of the need to care for our scarce water resources. This campaign promotes active participation of communities, especially women and youth in the Departmental programmes to ensure sustainability.
The Deputy Minister visited the Luvuvhu River in the Limpopo Region on 4 August 2010, which is polluted by wastes such as heavy metals, pesticides, chemical compounds from fertilisers, wastewater effluents and other solid waste. Water quality reports show that the Luvuvhu River and its tributaries already indicate high levels of faecal pollution and steady increases in phosphate and nitrates.
“Let us keep our rivers clean and stop the pollution that kills our fish and contaminates our water resources. When you educate a woman you educate the nation” said the Deputy Minister in her speech delivered in Limpopo. Continue reading Adopt-a-River launches in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal
Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) – partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 14 August 2010
If urgent steps are not taken, South Africa will run out of water for future economic growth within the next five years.
 This is among several alarming expert opinions contained in the second edition of “The Environmental Handbook: A Guide to Green Business in South Africa”, launched in Cape Town this week.
In a guest foreword to the publication, WWF SA chief executive Morne du Plessis warns that water availability is one of the “decisive factors” that will affect the country’s economic development.
“At current consumption rates, our demand will outstrip supply by 2015,” he says.
The handbook is published by consulting and research organisation Trialogue, which specialises in areas of sustainable business and corporate social investment.
Global warming
The latest edition focuses on global warming, and was coincidentally released on a day when local newspapers were highlighting one of its more dramatic global effects: a 260 square kilometre slab of ice which has broken off the Greenland icecap.
The handbook notes the effects of climate change and increasing water stress are now being felt in South Africa.
“We’re already at crux point with water, with only 2% of our supply in reserve – and, unlike the energy situation, there is no alternative to the resource we’re using,” it says. Continue reading South Africa out of water within 5 years
Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 25 July 2010
Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Buyelwa Sonjica signed a water-sharing agreement with her Swaziland counterpart, Tsandzile Dlamini, at Driekoppies Dam in Mpumalanga on Friday.
 Driekoppies Dam Under the agreement, communities living on both sides of the border will have the right to use water from the dam.
“SADC member countries have agreed to preserve water and promote the sharing of resources among ourselves, and therefore this is a good move for both countries because the project will benefit the citizens of both South Africa and Swaziland,” said Sonjica.
She reminded community members who attended the launch that water had to be used sparingly.
“As we celebrate our achievement today, we should never forget the fact that Swaziland and South Africa are indeed water-stressed countries. We do not have a surplus of water and we cannot afford to abuse our precious water resources. A few good thunderstorms or rising dam levels can never be invitations to waste water or to underestimate its value,” she said.
During the signing of the agreement on Friday, three agricultural sheds and a variety of farming implements were handed over to beneficiaries from the Schoemansdal, Schulzendal and Middelplaas communities, who were forced to relocate when construction of the Driekoppies Dam started in 1994.
The various communal compensation projects amount to more than 260ha under irrigation using water from Driekoppies Dam, as well as about 2900ha of farming land used for various crop cultivation projects.
Sonjica told the beneficiaries that a “mammoth task” awaited them in ensuring the success of their projects. Continue reading SA signs water sharing agreement with Swaziland
Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 24 July 2010
The biggest challenge facing Grahamstown’s innovative R60 million proposal to turn invasive plant species into much-needed electricity is finding 75000 litres of a water a day to keep the 20-year project going.
 A thirsty gum tree sucks up 1000 litres of water or more a day With the City of Saints currently in the grip of a severe drought, local residents on Thursday night (July 22) expressed concern that there would not be enough water for everybody.
With the scheme aimed at saving water by chopping down and burning thirsty, illegal invasive trees, the irony of using large amounts of water to save even larger amounts of the precious liquid was not lost on the 20-strong crowd of interested and affected parties.
Responding to a question about “creating a dangerous situation” by expecting existing Grahamstown residents and businesses to “use less water” in dry times to keep the project going, Coastal and Environmental Services expert Dr Kevin Whittington-Jones admitted the issue had been discussed for “several months”.
He said the project – funded by the Nollen Group, an international environmental finance company with projects all over the world – was “well aware” that the industrial area where the wood burning facility would be situated “had been experiencing water shortages for several months”.
Nollen Group representative Charlie Cox said the project did not need “clean water from Grahamstown”, thanks to installing its own reverse osmosis system to demineralise water before use.
The water was crucial to cool the equipment that would be used to produce 3MW of power a day. Continue reading Mega litres of water needed to remove thirsty trees
Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 13 July 2010
Many people believe that the electricity crisis will pale into insignificance relative to the water shortage that will hit the country – and particularly the Western Cape – in the coming years and decades.
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