NEWS in brief
planning processes, in 2004 the Ministry of Irrigation and
Water Development (MIWD) initiated the development of
an IWRM/WE plan as a roadmap to guide the country in
addressing its key water-related development challenges.
Completed in 2008, the IWRM/WE plan provides a long-
term strategic framework for a cross-sectoral approach to
water resources management as well as the identification of
priority focus areas to be targeted during an initial five-year
period.
Nigeria
Nigerians Warned Against Unregistered Packaged
Water
National President, Association of Table Water Producers
of Nigeria, ATWAP, Dame Clementina
Chinwe Ativie, has called on Nigerians
not to patronize package water not
registered by National
Agency for Food, Drug
Administration
and
Control, NAFDAC.
Dame Ativie, who made
the call in Lagos said a
lot of unregistered water
now flood the country and
urged NAFADAC to help
tackle the menace.
She said unregistered packaged water
producers are giving the association
a bad name, adding: “Ours is an
association that respects the rule of law.
Our members, I make bold to say, are
registered and also do our business as
duly registered NAFDAC members. We
call on the body to intensify its effort
in ensuring that illegal packaged water
producers are stopped.”
South Africa
Cape Town calls for information on
desalination solutions amid drought
Cape Town has issued a request for
information (RfI) about possible
solutions to the city’s lack of water
through desalination or other advanced
water treatment.
The RfI says that the city “seeks to gauge
the interest of for-profit and non-profit
entities in forming possible partnerships
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with the city to supply,
install and operate
temporary
reverse
osmosis (RO) plants
at various locations
along its sea shore,
and certain inland
Cape Town, South Africa, is in the grip of a locations, and to inject
severe drought, and has been declared officially the potable water into
as a disaster zone
the water distribution
network for a period”.
The aim is to produce 100,000 to 500,000 m3/d of potable
water from seawater, other surface water, or run-off water,
through a string of small (5,000 m3/d or less), medium
(5,001 to 30,000 m3/d), and large (30,001 to 500,000)