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  • Angola awards water supply project to Portuguese-French consortium

    ANGOLA, 2015/12/31 A Portuguese-French consortium was selected by the Angolan government to carry out work on the water supply network worth US$301 million, according to presidential orders. The initial of the contracts is related to studies, the executive design and construction project for water capture, a raw water pumping station, pumping duct and treatment plant of the project called “Lot B1″ for 39.678 billion kwanzas, to be implemented by consortium of French group Degremont and Portuguese companies Mota-Engil and Soares da Costa.

  • Djibouti renewable water security

    DJIBOUTI CITY, 2015/12/26 Plans are taking shape to improve the provision of basic utilities in Djibouti, with renewables set to play a leading role. A major investment drive, which includes construction of a 45,000-cu-metre desalination and renewable energy plant in the capital city of Djibouti, forms part of the government’s bid to foster better self-sufficiency in terms of basic resources like power and water. Desalination solution The new desalination plant, referred to as the Project for Producing Safe Drinking Water with Renewable Energy (Production d’Eau Potable par Dessalement et Energie Renouvelable, PEPER), will cost around €46m, according to the National Office for Water and Sanitation of Djibouti (Office National de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement de Djibouti, ONEAD).

  • Ghana's Akosombo Dam Faces Shutdown

    GHANA, 2015/12/15 The easing electricity crisis in the country may relapse as the Akosombo Hydro generating plant faces a possible shutdown due to a drastic drop in the water level. Water levels in the Volta Lake which supplies the dam keep falling drastically due to the harmattan season. As of Friday, December 11, the water level in the dam stood at 243.55 feet and a further drop of 3.55 feet will mean a total shutdown of the plant. The minimum operating water level for the dam is 240ft, and at this level, authorities are required to shut the turbines to save the plant, TV3's Odelia Ntiamoah Boampong reports.

  • South Africans Urged To Use Water Sparingly

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/11/17 South Africans have been urged from presently on again to use water sparingly. The call was made on Friday by the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) for water scarcity and drought, which is led by Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Pravin Gordhan. Briefing media in Pretoria on Friday, the committee warned that water is not an abundant commodity in South Africa. “In Johannesburg, you have 1.4 million households and today as we stand, 8000 households has had water interruptions over the last week. Over the last week or so, some 50 000 households in Johannesburg have been impacted by water interruption,” said Minister Gordhan.

  • 540,000 Malawians,Clean Water By 2018

    MALAWI, 2015/09/15 Basic Water Needs, a Dutch manufacturer and marketer of household water treatment and safe storage products, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), a world initiative supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other international organizations that encourages companies to fight poverty through innovative business models. As part of its commitment, Basic Water Needs plans to distribute its low-cost Tulip Table Top water filters to additional than 540,000 Malawians by 2018, making safe and clean drinking water additional available, easily accessible, and affordable. It's new assembly plant in Blantyre, Malawi's second major city, will provide full-time employment to ten women, and plans to train additional than 100 women entrepreneurs to sell Basic Water Needs products through their own shops and local networks. Basic Water Needs projects that the initiative will reduce CO2 emissions by additional than 150,000 tons.

  • Zambia Doesn't Hold 60% of Southern Africa's Freshwater, but 4.5%

    ZAMBIA, 2015/08/08 The claim that Zambia has 60% of the Southern African Development Community's freshwater is completely false. If Zambia has 60% of the freshwater in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), why does it import fish from China? Investment consultant, Fisho Mwale, reportedly referred to this at the same time as he made a presentation at a national enterprise conference in Lusaka last week. The claim that the landlocked country is home to 60% of the community's water has appeared before in a 2012 tweet, a press release by the Southern Africa Zambia chamber of commerce and an investment policy review by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Improvment(OECD). It is as well on the schedule for a conference about commercial farming in Africa to be held in October.

  • Taming Waters for Health, Jobs in Yaounde

    CAMEROON, 2015/03/04 Additional than half the world's eight billion people will be living in cities within five years, demographers predict – and Africa is at the forefront of that transition. The west African country of Cameroon has been leading the trend. By 2010, the majority of its people by presently were living in urban areas, putting pressure on infrastructure and city services. The capital, Yaoundé, exemplifies the challenges – swelling, crowded communities where schools, clinics, jobs, sanitation and access to clean water are scarce. Urban agriculture is practiced across the city, and humans share space with an estimated 50,000 pigs and over a million chickens, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

  • Malawi declared a state of disaster over persistent flooding.

    MALAWI, 2015/03/02 Aid agencies raced on Monday to reach tens of thousands of people displaced by catastrophic floods across southern Africa, as additional heavy rain was estimate in the coming days. Additional than 200 people have died in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar in one of the worst disasters to hit the region in years. Rivers have burst their banks, flooding vast areas and destroying homes, bridges and crops. "Next surveying the flooded districts from the air, we know that the scale of flooding is immense, and with the rains still falling, the water is unlikely to recede quickly," UNICEF's representative in Malawi, Mahimbo Mdoe, said in a statement.

  • Environmental Fair Discusses Waste Recycling in Angola

    ANGOLA, 2015/03/02 The National Secretary of Environment for New Technologies and Environmental Quality, Syanga Abilio, Friday in Luanda said that the fifth edition of the International Environmental Technologies equitable will discuss the waste recycling solutions. Syanga Abilio said so while presiding over the launch of event to be held in Luanda. He said that the activity will coincide with the initial year that his sector will promote activities under the motto: "Education for separating waste and massive afforestation".

  • Recycled Sewage Boosts Sydney Water Supply

    INDONESIA, 2015/02/20 Part the majority urgent concerns for the next is to have enough water to sustain a human people projected to reach 9.6 billion people by 2050.[1] The UN Millennium Development Goals recognize that access to water and sanitation is essential to economic development and poverty alleviation.[2] However, world consumption patterns indicate that we are becoming additional water profligate, and the waste that pollutes water supplies generally remains an unmitigated hazard. According to some estimates, 70 % of drinking water in India is contaminated by sewage, which is a significant impediment to equitable development that occurs in a lot of lower-gain nations.[3] The UN estimated that if water consumption trends continue unabated, 1.8 billion people will experience water shortages as any minute at this time as 2025.[4] Part solutions with great potential are the development and deployment of technologies that use wastewater as a resource, which can generate incentives for industries and municipalities to treat waste that is otherwise discharged into vital waterways.
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