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Desalination for Cape Town – Numbers and Facts – South Africa




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

Cape Town will have its first desalination plants working just weeks before the city’s dams are expected to go dry South Africa – Cape Town

That’s according to Xanthea Limberg, the City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for informal settlements, water and waste services, and energy . “Monwabisi and Strandfontein [plants] are currently scheduled [to start operating in] February but we are exploring opportunities to implement earlier, once internal funding issues are resolved,” Limberg told The Times. Mayor Patricia de Lille said earlier this month that the municipal water supply might dry up in March if usage was not reduced. Chris Braybrooke, general manager of water technology company Veolia, said completion of tendering for the desalination plants should have been six months ago [
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Cape Town will have its first desalination plants working just weeks before the city’s dams are expected to go dry South Africa – Cape Town2017-10-20T14:51:52+02:00
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