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10 Municipalities

The blame game: Harties sewage spill

Following last year’ s devastating sewage spill into Hartbeespoort Dam, various government entities have denied responsibility and it seems unlikely that anyone will be held accountable.

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14 Infrastructure

Ingula finally set to come on-stream

Africa’ s newest and largest pumped storage scheme is about to go into commercial operation this year— four years behind schedule and just about R27-billion over budget.

20 Industry

SA looks to retrofit for hydropower

As few suitable sites remain for the construction of new hydropower plants, government is thinking about retrofitting existing water infrastructure.

26 Environment

Technologies for legionella control in premise plumbing systems

Water, Sewage and Effluent reproduces this summary in the interest of plumbers and engineers understanding their critical role in safeguarding the health of people.

The iceman cometh

Ice pigging in the water industry, developed by the University of Bristol, have since been commercialised and is being used in 11 countries to assist with the cleaning of drinking-water pipelines.

34 Tech news 38 Networking

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