Sustainable Water Resource eJournal
Volume 2 Issue 7
Dear Readers, In this issue we look at some of the happenings in the water world at present, both good and bad. In the first article we see how Shell is trying to make fracking water friendly. After all the controversy regarding fracking in the Karoo it is great to… Read more...
Shell doing its best to make fracking safe, water friendly
Image from iol.co.zaSome of you may have seen this image on television or the internet. A man reaches across and turns on his kitchen tap. He takes a lighter and applies it to the stream of water, it bursts into flame. The flame is attributed to the presence of methane gas.It is… Read more...
Water scarcity will hit SA, warn activists
Image from capewatersolutions.co.zaCape Town - Lack of water and food in South Africa is a critical threat as climate change takes hold, environmental organisations have warned."It's very hard to stipulate one major threat because you’re dealing with such a diversity as climate change, but because you’d have such intense changes in the… Read more...
Damning water audit
Image from good-wallpapers.comTHE Water Affairs Department, already reeling from a leadership crisis that included the firing of its director-general and chief financial officer in the past year after the discovery of financial mismanagement and dodgy procurement practices totalling R1 billion, has again been hit with a damning report by the auditor-general for… Read more...
Nedbank commits R9m to WWF water programme
Image from savingwater.co.zaBanking giant Nedbank has committed R9-million over five years towards the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) Water Balance programme, and would rehabilitate the priority catchment areas of the Enkangala Grasslands in Mpumalanga, and the Upper Umgeni in KwaZulu-Natal. Through Nedbank’s investment in the programme, which clears water-sapping alien invasive… Read more...
