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4 What’ s on 5 News

8 Municipalities

Disconnecting municipal water

When is it illegal for a municipality to disconnect water?

Groundwater relief for Middelpos school

A school in the drought-stricken western Karoo, Middelpos Primary School, was landed with an R18 000 water bill in February this year. A more sustainable plan had to be made.

14 Infrastructure

Down the drain

How water leakage affects us and what we can do about it.

20 Environment

Verdantly vile!

By managing the aquatic vegetation in irrigation canals, large volumes of water can be saved.

Preserving mangrove forests

Concor Infrastructure works with specialist consultants to reduce its environmental footprint on the N2 national freeway contract, north of Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal.

26 Debate

Catch a wake up!

Cape Town’ s boreholes are teaching us how to avoid a commons tragedy and, in the process, possibly practise good-neighbourliness over avarice.

28 Industry

Aquifers are not bottomless

Is Cape Town gambling with the future of one of the world’ s most unique ecosystems as it pushes ahead with drilling for groundwater from the Table Mountain Group( TMG) Aquifer?

The real source of nitrates in water

SRK principal hydrogeologist Sarah Skinner’ s paper advances tools for mines to identify nitrate sources in surface- and groundwater more efficiently.

34 Innovations 36 Contributors 38 Networking

When measurement matters

Water Sewage & Effluent March / April 2018 3