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12 Mar 2026

Wireless leak detection valve

By Staff Writer

Prevent water damage with the innovative Runxin F104 Wireless Leak Detection Valve. This smart valve automatically shuts off water when a leak is detected, protecting your business or home. Designed to prevent water leakage by automatically shutting off the water supply when a leak is detected, the Runxin F104 Wireless Leak Detection Valve is one...
26 May 2023

New report blames a product for governments’ lack of delivery

By Staff Writer

“Tenuous at best, passing the buck at worst” is the reaction from South African National Bottled Water Association CEO, Charlotte Metcalf, to a report shifting the blame for the lack of progress towards safe drinking water for all goals from the world’s governments to its bottled water industry. Metcalf was commenting on an article republished by...
23 Feb 2021

The alcohol ban: it’s about more than just booze

By Craig Groeneveld

The government-imposed alcohol ban impacted not only those that directly manufacture, distribute, sell and consume alcoholic beverages but also suppliers to this industry. The cascading effect of alcohol prohibition includes the loss of excise tax revenue to SARS but also to manufacturers, winemakers and craft brewers. The impacts are many-layered. People make the industry Recent...
06 May 2020

Low risk of COVID-19 in SA water systems

By Staff Writer

IFAT Africa hosted its first webinar on Wednesday, 29 April 2020. Panellists focused on the biggest challenges facing the water sector, as South Africa seeks to mitigate the COVID-19 risk. There is no evidence that COVID-19 will contaminate water supplies, but the pandemic has highlighted water challenges putting communities’ health at risk, say industry stakeholders....
21 Feb 2020

Saving resources by re-using wastewater | EDT Water Treatment

By Staff Writer

EuroDrain Technology is a company with extensive experience in design, manufacturing, installation and operation of environmental technologies. The company has provided compact wastewater treatment solutions for households, municipal and industrial projects and farms for many years. EDT wastewater treatment plants offer both below and above ground options. Designed according to the client’s requirements, the plants...
30 Aug 2018

Cape Town casino not gambling on water

By Staff Writer

Earlier in July Sun International’s GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town announced the completion of a water purification plant on the property that will in future treat borehole water to potable standards. The initiative began In February 2017 when the casino investigated feasible options to using potable water. They commissioned a water treatment...
10 Jul 2018

Veolia Water Technologies reveals new “Ambitions for Africa”

By Staff Writer

The speed and magnitude of Africa’s ongoing urbanisation, with 1.3 billion people expected to live in cities in 2050 compared to 480 million today, combined with its rapid industrialisation, and has shed a new light on the evolving and multifaceted needs for water treatment and infrastructures. To address the plurality of these needs, Veolia Water...
24 Oct 2017

Water crisis puts plant operating efficiencies under pressure

By Staff Writer

As South Africa’s water resources dwindle under endemic drought and rapid urbanisation, it is imperative that water efficiency be achieved in the plants and processes that deliver drinking water and waste treatment facilities, through the installation of effective and efficient process controllers and systems.