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Desalination for Cape Town – Numbers and Facts – South Africa

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3. What about in South Africa?
In South Africa desalination is used quite widely by mines to clean up polluted mine water and acid mine drainage. Small to medium-scale desalination has also been used in coastal towns during times of drought. Six municipalities are currently using small-scale reverse osmosis plants to desalinate water for bulk water supply.

Mossel Bay has a medium size desalination plant capable of producing 15 million litres of potable water per day but the plant is currently on standby as the dams in the area are full. Standby mode requires continuous maintenance to keep the plant […]

Desalination for Cape Town – Numbers and Facts – South Africa2018-03-01T11:32:09+01:00

Monwabisi desalination plant starting side preparation – Cape Town – South Africa

The Monwabisi desalination plant is one of seven projects earmarked as part of the first phase of the City of Cape Town’s Additional Water Supply Programme. Site preparation is currently under way. „It is anticipated that the Monwabisi plant will produce a total of seven million litres of drinking water per day which will be fed into the water reticulation system to supplement current supply from the dams and other water sources. „A nine-week construction period is planned for the completion of the first phase comprising two million litres. The first drinking water generated by the desalination plant is […]

Monwabisi desalination plant starting side preparation – Cape Town – South Africa2017-12-18T16:11:51+01:00

Zille lauds management of Bitou’s desalination plant- Plettenberg Bay – South Africa

WESTERN Cape premier Helen Zille has lauded the design and management of Bitou’s desalination plant. She was in the area last Thursday to speak at the S-Cape Landowner’s Initiative’s Environmental Seminar 2017, and to inspect projects related to the Garden Route Rebuild Initiative. Talking about drought mitigation measures in Bitou, she said: “Roodefontein Dam is currently 72% full, and augmentation schemes in this municipality include equipping two new boreholes in Kurland, four in KwaNokuthula, and four in Uplands. “Drilling for these boreholes has already commenced, and we’re also planning two additional boreholes in Harkerville. After inspecting Plett’s desalination plant, […]

Zille lauds management of Bitou’s desalination plant- Plettenberg Bay – South Africa2017-12-01T20:00:13+01:00

Desalination: Cape Town’s solution to water shortages – South Africa

Minister of local government‚ environmental affairs and development planning in the Western Cape, Anton Bredell, says the province has been managing drought conditions in some parts of the region since 2010. “Three years of below-average rainfall have exacerbated the situation and despite proactive measures like the implementation of water restrictions and programmes to clear the Berg River of alien vegetation‚ the reality is we are faced with a dire situation.” Inspired by the Target 140 Campaign implemented in South East Queensland, Australia, Cape Town embarked on reducing water usage. So far residents’ water usage has dropped below 100 litres […]

Desalination: Cape Town’s solution to water shortages – South Africa2017-11-15T16:44:17+01:00

Cape Town’s temporary desalination plants online ‘February 2018’ . South Africa – Cape Town

… After yesterday’s rains across the metropole, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille briefed media, and Twitter, on updates regarding its water resilience scheme. The scheme aims to “avoid a time when users do not have access to municipal drinking water”, de Lille explained. “In terms of our Water Resilience Plan to augment supply with schemes, we are expecting the first water to come online by Dec 2017 /Jan 2018,” she tweeted. The plan intends to add an additional 500-million litres per day to Cape Town’s water supply by using natural springs, aquifers, and desalination. The latter, however, won’t […]

Cape Town’s temporary desalination plants online ‘February 2018’ . South Africa – Cape Town2017-10-04T15:54:55+02:00

Tender to produce extra 500Ml of water for Cape Town – South Africa

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“Our intent is to both drive down collective usage to 500Ml per day and to ensure that there is always at 500Ml/day of water in production,” Mayor Patricia de Lille told reporters on Thursday. She said the city had decided to take the most pessimistic view of the drought, and hoped to have the first desalination plant on line by the end of October. The city had reduced water consumption from around 1000Ml a day in the past year to the latest figure of 610Ml a day. This was still too much, given the poor prospects of […]

Tender to produce extra 500Ml of water for Cape Town – South Africa2017-08-21T09:25:00+02:00

Cape Town’s first desalination plant – South Africa

Mother City residents could be drinking seawater by as early as August of this year. Great news, seeing as the recent rains – as heavy as they were – barely made a dent in the dam levels of the resources supplying the city, pushing them up to just over 23%.

Officials are hopeful that, as of August, Capetonians won’t be completely reliant on existing dams and reservoirs, what with an additional 500 million litres of desalinated water being pushed out per day.

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Cape Town’s first desalination plant – South Africa2017-06-26T11:54:08+02:00

Desalination the way to go in water-scarce South Africa

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“Desalination is a critical component. It is probably more important than nuclear. Everyone is talking about nuclear but, frankly, that is a secondary issue,” Turton told the yearly conference of the Southern African Asset Management Association, Saama.

He argued that desalination technologies should be used in cities like Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London and Richards Bay, also suggesting that this could cascade into recycling sewage, which he considers a game changer.

“If we can recycle our sewage we can recover five-billion litres of water a day. If you take 100 ℓ of sewage effluent that each […]

Desalination the way to go in water-scarce South Africa2017-06-06T12:14:48+02:00

„We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,“ said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis.

De Lille plans to write to Western Cape Environment MEC Anton Bredell, asking for the city to be declared a disaster area, so that it can institute emergency measures.

‚Crisis‘

 These would include treating waste water even further to put it in the potable system, drawing water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and the Cape Flats Aquifer, and in the long term, an ambitious R15bn desalination project with Eskom that would cost R1.2bn in operating expenditure (LINK).
„We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,“ said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis.2017-02-28T21:27:39+01:00
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