Durban Water Recycling (DWR) plant: Veolia installed a highly specialised water treatment process, specifically tailored to
meet the exacting water quality requirements of DWR’s main client, Mondi Paper, which uses the recycled water directly for
the production of fine paper, which is extremely sensitive to process water quality and its impact on water brightness.
Mapping the road to the
circular economy
Cities of the future will have a radically different understanding of what
we today consider ‘waste’.
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F
uture cities will recognise and
have the technological capabilities
to harvest and recycle precious
resources from sometimes the
unlikeliest and contaminated of waste
streams — and the benefits will be
greater efficiencies of production,
lower energy costs, and greater
environmental sustainability.
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In fact, perhaps such cities are not too
far away.
Already, plants such as the Durban
Water Recycling (DWR) plant and
the Goerengab Water Reclamation
Project in Windhoek, Namibia, which
recycle 47.5Mℓ and 21Mℓ, respectively,
of wastewater per day, represent
landmark — although (frustratingly)
Water Sewage & Effluent May/June 2018
isolated — examples of municipal
wastewater recycling schemes in
southern Africa. Water and wastewater
management specialist Veolia Water
Technologies South Africa was involved
in both plants.
As Chris Braybrooke, general manager:
marketing at Veolia Water Technologies,
South Africa, explains, “Waste is a