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WATER LOSS: Are we wasting our way into a potential water crisis?

The summit, held in Midrand, is the brain-child of Dr Ronnie McKenzie, MD of WRP Consulting Engineers, and follows on from the successful series of water demand management workshops and water demand management Master classes presented annually by WRP since 1997.

Driving down leakage

REMOTE LOGGING, through GSM and GPRS devices in particular, is commonplace and easily accessible to all water suppliers in virtually every country. The costs associated with both the hardware and the software, as well as associated communication charges, have all decreased in recent years with the result that the financial viability of using such technology to assist with leakage reduction activities is now clearly evident.

Benchmarking of non-revenue water: experiences from South Africa

The South African Water Research Commission assists South African utilities in managing leakage, and has used leakage data to put together a comprehensive assessment of non-revenue water in the country. In the latest article from the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group, Jay Bhagwan, Willem Wegelin and Zama Siqalaba discuss the outcomes of South Africa's largest leakage assessment to date.

Counting the Last Drops

While South Africa’s non-revenue water levels compare well internationally as a water scarce country we need to do all we can to prevent the unnecessary loss of water. This is one of the main recommendations of a recent study into the state of non-revenue water in South Africa commissioned by the Water Research Commission (WRC). Lani van Vuuren reports.

Solving the water crisis with AMR technology

With a water shortage predicted by 2020, leaking pipes, ageing infrastructure and poor municipal administration is exacerbating South Africa’s water crisis.
With billions of rands of public funds being wasted annually, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has recently revealed that a quarter of the country’s water was being lost due to leaking water systems.

PPP to deliver advanced pressure management: success in South Africa

Many water distribution systems in South Africa are deteriorating due to many years of neglect, resulting in a serious maintenance backlog. Aiming to find a solution to this, one of the largest advanced pressure management projects in the world was undertaken, which successfully tackled water losses and improved network management. Ronnie McKenzie and Willem Wegelin discuss the project’s innovative public-private partnership approach.

Turning Water Losses into Saved Revenue

W&S Africa reports on the project that aims to reduce Emfuleni Municipality's total water demand by 15%
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Emfuleni Water Conservation Project has recently been signed by the Emfuleni Municipality and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German, British and Australian governments, as well as Sasol.

African Water Leakage Summit highlights

This year's African Water Leakage Summit highlighted the growing importance of water loss control in the African environment.
The two events, each held over two days in both Johannesburg and Cape Town, attracted more than 200 delegates in total, from nine countries. This is the first African regional water losses summit to be officially sanctioned by the International Water Association.

Water is Life

Water management is becoming increasingly complex as water becomes an increasingly scarce commodity in a semi-arid country like South Africa
Water management companies like WRP Engineering are working hard to develop viable methods of sustainable service delivery and they are contributing to the economic growth of South Africa by meeting present and future need for potable water.

Community management proves key to successful demand management

For water demand management programmes to become a sustainable part of improving water supply services in low to middle income countries, community awareness and education needs to be addressed. In the latest article from the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group, Ronnie Mckenzie, Zama Siqalaba and Willem Wegelin highlight a number of projects in South Africa where successful leak management was undertaken with support from the local communities.

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