Rainwater Harvesting
It is now viable to harvest rainwater for your whole household. This includes rainwater harvesting, storing and pumping rainwater for bathing, showering, toilet flushing, pool, laundry and irrigation. Rainwater harvesting together with other Water Rhapsody products can save up to 90% of your water bill.
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New Products from Jojo Tanks
The New Livestock Oasis from Jojo Tanks: 2500 litre Base Diameter: 2000mm Height: 300mm (crib) Ideal for Small Stock (sheep, goats) AVAILABLE FROM WATER RHAPSODY EC FOR R3817 incl. (Delivery included) New Tank Alert from Jojo Tanks: This smart device will allow you to view your water tank levels from the comfort of you home or office. The kit contains an electronic gauge which measures the water level in your tank and transmit that information to a receiver located where you can comfortably monitor it. Communication distance to the receiver is greater than 200m, and measurement resolution is down to 1cm. Get yourself one and you will be the lucky person monitoring the water level of your JoJo tank from the comfort of your favourite armchair! AVAILABLE FROM WATER RHAPSODY EC FOR ONLY R1127 incl. (R1495) with installation in Port Elizabeth.
Eastern Cape: Extremely Uncomfortable; Heat Wave
According to Weather SA: www.weathersa.co.za Updated: 16/01/2012 16:02:30 Warning: Take action Subject: Extremely uncomfortable; Heat Wave Detail: Valid for 17 to 19/01/2012: Warning: 1. A heat wave with persistently high temperatures is expected over the western and southern parts until Thursday. 2. Extremely uncomfortable, humid conditions will be experienced over the western and southern interior until Thursday. With this heat wave in mind, it will be difficult to keep your lawn from looking like this: The alternative for using your precious municipal water to water your garden, you might consider having the Water Rhapsody’s grey water system installed, namely Garden Rhapsody. In which case the Garden Rhapsody collects all your grey water, from your baths, showers, hand basins and laundry. The grey water sprays out onto your lawn or where you’ve directed it via hosepipe to spray. Imagine the feeling of watering your garden while taking a shower…. If you harvest rainwater through the Water Rhapsody Grand Opus, you will be making use of your own rainwater in your shower, your lawn will be watered with that same water. Shouldn’t everybody be heading this way? Have us visiting your premises for a free no-obligation quotation to install these systems. Contact … Continue reading
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The Poseidon Advantage
The Herald – 22 Aug’11 “Water Conservation The following restrictive use of water obtained from the Municipality’s water supply system will be imposed with effect from 25 July 2011: The use of hosepipes, sprinklers, sprinkler and drip systems to water gardens, lawns, grassed areas, flower-beds, racecourses, sports fields, bowling greens, golf greens and fairways, croquet lawns, turf wickets, ploughing fields and the like will NOT be permitted between 10:00 and 16:00. Washing down of driveways, paved areas, roofs and buildings will be permitted only if a pressurised sprayer is used. Washing down of cars, boats and caravans will be permitted only if a pressurised sprayer is used. In terms of Section 73 of the Water Services Bylaw: Any commercial vehicle washing facility must be constructed and operated in such a manner that 60% of the potable water used by such facility is recycled for reuse in the facility, provided that commercial vehicle washing facilities that are in operation when this By-law is promulgated will be granted a period of three years from the date of promulgation (14 May 2010) of this By-law to comply with this.” This is where Water Rhapsody can be of help. We have the system called … Continue reading
Kouga Dam Yesterday
Morning ! Just want to share this beautiful picture of Kouga Dam with you from yesterday, what a amazing site !!! Regards Victor It truly is! Thank you for sharing this with us Victor. -Water Rhapsody Eastern Cape
Water Tank Special!
These Jojo tank prices are valid until the end of August 2011, only on the 2500l and 5000l (VAT and Delivery included), the other prices remain the same: 2500l = R1650 5000l = R2785 Contact us for your tank orders as soon as possible. Visit our Water Tank Page for colors available. More rain might be coming our way. Be prepared. Let us do the installation for you. For a free quote on our Rainwater Harvesting System, let us know through the Contact Form.
Latest Rainfall Figures in Eastern Cape
EASTERN CAPE 03 July 2011 CAPE ST FRANCIS 28 FLOWER RESERVE 10 JOUBERTINA AWS 01 NGQURA (COEGA) 03 PORT ELIZABETH 11 THIRD AVENUE DIP 26 TSITSIKAMMA 15
NMBM Don’t waste now!
Dear All Please note though that the Metro`s main supply dams the Churchill and Impofu are the only ones that are not yet full and it is important to consider this when determining the full / partial water restrictions being retained . It is likely that some measures of curtailment will be retained in order to better secure our LONG TERM water supply . The past experiences confirm that our recent water crisis was largely as a result of the liberal usage of our water reserves . We need to make better use of and go further with our water: Re-use bath/shower water to flush toilets or water the garden with. Contact Water Rhapsody for Grey water and Multi-Flush Systems. Don`t waste , so that our water will go further . The Metro has been using an average of 233 ml. per day as against the previous 300 ml before restrictions , that is more than 20% less , which if applied before could`ve resulted in dam levels being above 40% rather than the 31% that it was a few weeks ago . Water is a long term scarce commodity and we need to treat it with care . The … Continue reading
Dam Levels as on 03 May 2011
The dams levels are indicated below and reflects a total level of 31,4% which is ever closer to the 30% level, where more stringent water restrictions will be imposed . Major Storage Dams supplying the Metro Dam Capacity Volume of water Kouga 37,5% 48 217 Ml Churchill 30,9% 11 002 Impofu 19,0% 18 658 Loerie 37,8% 1 482 Groendal 67,2% 7 826 Total 87 185 Ml Average daily consumption for the period 19 April to 30 April 2011 was 238 Ml Average daily consumption for April was 245 Ml Our target is to remain under 250 Ml per day Make use of Water Rhapsody’s unique water conservation systems to minimize your daily consumption. Have a look at our systems on the Product Demonstration Page. Contact us for more information or a quotation.
Lewis Pugh on Karoo Fracking
This is the content of a short speech given on Friday night in Cape Town by Lewis Gordon Pugh OIG (a.k.a. the Human Polar Bear) about the proposed fracking for gas in the Karoo, by Shell. He received a sustained standing ovation !
