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Fitting thought 1 Plumbing Africa Are we only what we are taught? Nearly everyone would say no to this question, but in reality, we may need to reconsider. We are seemingly living in failing environments: we experience a lack in service delivery and have little innovation to inspire where it is needed most. Now although we may consider ourselves to be lateral thinkers, most of us think about the here and now because this is all we know or have been taught. It is akin to that saying: “Your kids do what you do, not what you say.” and look at trends in the industry going into 2018 on page 50, whereas our project is the Nedbank Sunninghill Campus, where an off-grid water system has been installed (page 38). We also explore some of the faults with the previous ‘Plumbing Wall of Shame’ installations. Check out the new ‘Wall of Shame’ and note that this month we are having a competition to identify all the compliance issues, so submit your entry! We all have bad habits and what we often lose sight of is that somewhere, someone is watching us and perhaps imitating those bad habits. Inadvertently, we could be teaching others who are looking up to us the wrong things — but will be sure to reprimand that person if he or she emulates you. This is the same as ‘walking the talk’. If we want to complain about how bad everything is, how close to the front of the queue are you to actually doing something about it yourself? If no one is doing anything then, logically, nothing is going to change. If we want to transfer our knowledge, directly or indirectly, we need to understand that this goes hand in hand with our actions, which have a far greater impact than our words do. Keep on teaching the right things through your actions and actively participate in your industries. In this issue, we continue looking at the rainwater harvesting guidelines on page 34. We gain some insight from industry players ISSN 1812 - 1705 Audit Bureau of Circulations April - June 2017 Controlled free distribution         3034 CONTENT MANAGER Benjamin Brits • [email protected] WRITER Dineo Phoshoko • [email protected] CONTRIBUTOR Tristan Wiggill SUBEDITOR Elaine Enslin OPERATIONS MANAGER Marike Groot • [email protected] DESIGN/LAYOUT Mpho Ngobeni • [email protected] NATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES Director: Dale Macnamara • [email protected] External sales: Marcus Pearson• [email protected] Internal sales: Zeldalee du Toit • [email protected] Process coordinator: Estelle Thurtle •[email protected] www.plumbingafrica.co.za If you have any comments or wish to be involved in any content contributions, please let me know at [email protected]. Happy plumbing. PA Ben HEAD OFFICE Interact Media Defined (Pty) Ltd 13A Riley Rd, Bedfordview 2007 PO Box 695 Edenvale 1610 Tel: [phone] • Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] ACCOUNTS Laetitia Arnott • [email protected] MANAGING DIRECTOR Richard Bicker Caarten • [email protected] OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL DIRECTOR Sean Macnamara, CA (SA) • [email protected] OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE • Institute of Plumbing South Africa (IOPSA) • Sani`ter Africa, Plumbdrain Africa • Polymer Hot & Cold Technology Group (PHACT) • Plumbing Design Association (PDA) PRINTER Typo Colour Printing Specialists Cnr Bezuidenhout & Beaufort St, Troyeville 2094 Tel: [phone] DELIVERY/SUBSCRIPTIONS [email protected] DISTRIBUTION/MAILING CAB Holdings (Pty) Ltd 1 Trein Street, The Gables, Cleveland, 2001 Tel: [phone] ADVISORY COMMITTEE • Andrew Camphausen • Chris Kyle • Evert Swanepoel • Francisco Habib • Gary Chandler • Lawrence Benatar • Steve Brown DISCLAIMER While every reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure the accuracy of the advice and information given, neither the editor, publisher, proprietor, staff nor any official body represented or published in this issue, will accept responsibility for any damages, loss, injuries or false claims that may arise or be made in the content. Disclaimers by individual companies are hereby overridden. Reproduction of any of the content is expressly forbidden in terms of the Copyright Act of 1987 with all amendments. All requests to reproduce must be made in writing to the Publisher and such confirmation must be given in writing before proceeding. A copy of where the reproduction was published must be supplied to the Publisher at the above address. No reasonable request will be refused provided all conditions are met. All Publication and Exhibition titles are registered as trade marks in terms of the Trade Marks Act of 1993 and are held by Interact Media Defined (Pty) Ltd, Reg No 2014/092774/07. INTERACT MEDIA DEFINED Reg. 2014/092774/07 | VAT. 4560266159 November 2017 Volume 23 I Number 9