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3 CONTENTS Contents #SURPLUS WATER 2025 388 71 9 Savings to date (in millions of litres) Sites monitored Number of Companies involved BUSINESS AND TRAINING 35 Enabling a win-win plumbing career for unemployed youth 38 The safe use of ladders and step-ladders FEATURES 45 A heated discussion on heat pumps COVER STORY: TECHNICAL 55 Play your part in looking after our water resources PERSONALITY PROFILE 60 Training tells its own story REGULARS 1 Fitting thought: What journalism and plumbing have in common 58 2019 Iopsa Industry Lady of the Year 64 Plumbing wall of shame 65 The plunger games 66 Web/brandlistings 72 Products 16 Complying with drainage regulations and 4IR thinking SAVE THE DATE LOCAL EVENTS INTERNATIONAL EVENTS For IOPSA events, please contact IOPSA: +27 (0) 11 454 0025 [email protected] www.iopsa.org World Water Week 25-30 August 2019, Stockholm, Sweden Cape Construction Expo 2019 11-12 September 2019, Sun Exhibits, Grand West 12th World Plumbing Conference 11-13 September 2019, Melbourne, Australia Please note: If you are receiving this publication and no longer wish to, please complete the opt out form received with the publication and fax it back to us on: +27 (0) 11 450 1920. Alternatively, please email us at: [email protected] to let us know so that we can remove you from our mailing list. August 2019 Volume 25 I Number 6 www.plumbingafrica.co.za