Johannesburg water safe to drink

Overseas visitors can drink Johannesburg’s water without fear because it is clean and safe,Johannesburg Water said  last week.

“We can say that residents and visitors to the city of Johannesburg needn’t fear about the quality of water supply to city,”the utility’s laboratory support manager Russel Rimmer said.

Speaking at a briefing on the

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Water supply on red alert!

A third of the world’s people might have access to only half the water they need in the next decades if nothing is done to conserve the critical resource.

It is estimated that 1.1 billion people globally rely on unsafe drinking water sources and that as much as 80 percent of

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Security Guards hired to protect your water!

When it comes to water in Rajasthan,you don’t take any chances —you guard it with your life.  Well,not quite,but villagers in areas where water scarcity has reached alarming proportions now think nothing of forking out anything between Rs 100 and Rs 200 a day to hire private security guards to keep

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Opposition MPs warn of a water crisis!

Photograph by:JORGE SILVA

Opposition MPs warned of a crisis in the state of South Africa’s water affairs,pinning the blame for it on mismanagement.

Your department has let South Africa down,and seriously so,” Democratic Alliance MP Annette Lovemore told Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.

Lovemore,speaking during debate on the water

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Quick Water Saving Tips in your Garden!

Water your garden before 10:00 in the morning,or after 16:oo in the afternoon,this eliminates a lot of evaporation. Collect grey water from your bath,sinks and laundry and use these for irrigating your garden. You can invest in professionally installed and fully automated grey water recycling system for this purpose. Schedule your garden

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Quick Water Saving Tips around your house

Shower instead of taking a bath – a bath uses an average of 160 litres,while a five-minute shower uses only 60 litres of water. Keep the tap closed while you are brushing your teeth or shaving – this can save up to 20 litres of water a month. Cut down the amount of

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Grey Water Systems reduce water use by 30%

A pilot project to test whether reusing grey water is feasible began about a year ago. Fourteen homes have reuse systems installed,and the city Guelph -  Canada,would like another 16 homeowners to sign on.

Ben Polley is convinced.

The home builder installed a grey water system last year in the Manitoba Street heritage

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We can generate energy but not water!

South Africa is heading for a water deficit of between 17 percent and 30 percent in 2030 –and needs to invest R2.8 billion per year to prevent shortages,according to a global water report.

Its best-case scenario it projects a water shortfall in two decades of 2.9 billion cubic meters,rising to 3.8 billion

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Drunk Christmas revelers handed bottles of water

BOTTLES of water are to be handed out in Bolton town centre to stop Christmas revelers getting too drunk.

Police and volunteer workers will give out 2,000 bottles over the next two weekends when festive parties are at their peak.

Student actors from The University of Bolton will also be pretending to be drunk to

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Beijing announces water price hike

The hike in Beijing’s water price aims to encourage conservation and

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recycling in a bid to ease water shortages in the city. By subsidizing low-income residents,officials say the price hike will not impose an excessive financial burden on ordinary people.

Authorities say Beijing is short in water resources. With an average of

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