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Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 29 April 2010 Bongani Mineral’s recently withdrawn application for mining rights and newly submitted application for prospecting rights in the Moutonshoek Valley are about low grade tungsten ore and short term profits. Verlorenvlei For the people who [...] Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 23 April 2010 By: Jeremy Westgarth-TaylorPioneer of Water Rhapsody Conservation Systems and winner of a WWF Green Trust Award  The Table Mountain fossil aquifer has been there for millions of years. Extraction would permanently reduce the amount of water. Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has said that her department was forging ahead with plans to supply desalinated water to Cape Town, and furthermore extract water from the Table Mountain (TM) aquifer. As mentioned in the article, all rivers in the Western Cape have been dammed, and the maximum amount of water is being extracted. There is no more water that can possibly be squeezed from our rivers. What was not said is that this water is used, polluted and largely wasted to rivers around the Western Cape with concomitant damage to riverine and marine life. The focus has always been and remains to supply more and more water. Now DWEA are looking at other ways, hence the aquifer extraction and sea water desalination. Has the Minister not been advised by scientists that by extracting fossil water from the TM aquifer, the relatively finite amount of water in the aquifer is being permanently reduced for all practical intents and purposes. This is a fossil aquifer, and has been there for millions of years. Not only would extraction permanently reduce the amount of water in the aquifer, but it would also jeopardise plant and animal life as well as rivers within the aquifer system. If you for instance pump water out near Cape Town, there will be a lessening of available water as far as Port Elizabeth! Continue reading Desalinated sea water for city in four years Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 05 April 2010 Southeast Asian nations on the Mekong River pledged Monday to step up cooperation over the shrinking waterway amid fears China’s dams are exacerbating a severe regional drought.  Mekong River Leaders of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam — the member-states of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) — convened in the Thai coastal town of Hua Hin to discuss management of the river, on which more than 60 million people rely. “Without good and careful management of the Mekong river as well as its natural resources, this great river will not survive,” Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said as he opened the summit, the first in the MRC’s history. “The Mekong river is being threatened by serious problems arising from both the unsustainable use of water and the effects of climate change,” he warned. China — itself suffering the worst drought in a century in its southwest, with more than 24 million people short of drinking water — attended the talks as a dialogue partner of the MRC, as did military-ruled Myanmar. Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao led the Beijing delegation to the summit, which comes after river levels in northern Thailand and Laos hit five-decade lows, according to the commission. The situation has alarmed communities along the Mekong, which is the world’s largest inland fishery and vital for the region’s transport, drinking water and irrigation. Continue reading Mekong River may not survive Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 03 April 2010 The question of whether we are facing a water crisis similar to the energy crisis has driven Umfula Wempilo Consulting’s Chris Harold to become concerned about water supply and demand. Illegal water abstraction in [...] Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 30 March 2010 Throughout written history there have been many abrupt ends to empires and civilizations that have little explanation. Political climates deteriorate, passions rise, revolts happen and the next thing you know–the culture is a thing of [...] |
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