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South African metropolitans are heading for a major water crisis in 2020, a former director general of the Department of Water Affairs has warned. Mike Muller, who now serves as an adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and sits on the National Planning Commission, said at a Water and Energy Forum in Sandton this [...] Water tanks are an excellent way to store large quantities of water and gain water independence to secure a fresh water supply with the threat of water scarcity and water outages. We can supply and install rainwater harvesting systems. You decide whether to use the harvested water in your home and garden. Our water tanks come in [...] Cape Town – The government hopes to have cleaner fuels made available to the public as soon as 2013, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. Briefing the media at parliament on the Clean Fuels Two (CF2) draft fuel specifications and standards, she said full introduction was expected by 2017. CF2 is the equivalent of the current [...] Cape Town – As World Water Day approaches, the department of water affairs and host city Cape Town are determined to change perceptions about water as a scarce resource. This year the theme of Water Day on March 22 will focus on how urbanisation puts pressure on water and sanitation services. In SA, though, the problem [...] Three Municipalities were identified as the first that will have serious water shortages. They are the City of Johannesburg, eThekwini in Durban and the Nelson Mandela Metro in Port Elizabeth. The former Director General of Water Affairs, Mike Muller told representatives at the Water and Energy Forum in Johannesburg that a serious water crisis is looming [...] The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine “evapo-transpiration” on a global basis. Most climate models have suggested that evapo-transpiration, which is the movement [...] Cape Town – Government has set aside R800m for immediate relief to assist communities affected by the recent floods in the north of the country, President Jacob Zuma announced on Thursday. In his State of the Nation address to parliament, he said that as the country prepared for the upcoming local government elections, the country had [...] Durban – Four poachers were shot dead and one injured in the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga and the Hluhluwe-Mfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal, officials said on Monday. Three were shot dead during a gunfight between five poachers and rangers in the Stolsnek section of the Kruger National Park over the weekend, SABC news quoted SANParks CEO [...] Cairns – Australians voiced relief and surprise on Thursday after one of the world’s most powerful cyclones spared the nation’s northeast coast from expected devastation, with no reported deaths despite winds tearing off roofs and toppling trees. Cyclone Yasi, roughly the size of Italy and packing winds of up to around 300km per hour, threatened Australia [...] |
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