As Jojo Dealers and one of their listed preferred installers, Water Rhapsody is offering the 2500l for R1550 and the 5000l for R2785 (incl VAT & Delivery) until the end of October 2011.

So hurry, order your tank(s) now and we will visit you for a no-obligation quote on the installation thereof. We might be in the unfortunate position of having water restrictions again in the future, so start now becoming independent of Municipal supply.

Saving water is an excellent way to show that you care and are willing to do your little bit to help. Whether you store just a small amount to reduce your use of the municipal supply or get off the grid completely,it will be beneficial for the entire community and for future generations.

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

Last year this time the combined capacity was 33.7%

This could mean that the water restrictions be totally lifted. The Department of Water Affairs said it would lift the restrictions when the combined capacity of the Impofu and Churchill dams reach a combined capacity of 85%.

Does this means that the scarcity of water in the metropole is something of the past?  No!, warns Mr Dewalt Coetzee, director: southern operations from the department of water affairs.  Full dams are not an indication of plenty of water.  South Africa is a water scares country and if we waste the water now and the rains stays away again, we might be back to water restrictions within a year’s time.

The long term weather forecast predicts another dry season.

Lets all work together to keep on saving water.

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The department is in the process of lifting restrictions on the city’s water usage from the two major dams which are wholly dedicated to it, the Churchill and the Impofu on the Kromme River, from 15% in the 2010/11 water year, to 10%. It will drop the 10% restriction entirely once both the Churchill and three-times-larger Impofu reach a combined capacity of 85%. Yesterday they stood at 76%.

Both the Loerie and Kouga dams have been overflowing for weeks now. For the last water year, which ended on June 30, the Bay could only use 60% of its allocation from the Kouga Dam, or about 14000 megalitres a year. The city’s water consumption from that dam is monitored carefully, as it is pumped from the Kouga Dam to the Loerie Dam, and then to the city.

Gamtoos Valley farmers were told earlier this month they could use their full quota (60000Ml a year) of the Kouga Dam’s water again, after being forced to use just 40% (24000Ml) during the last water year, crippling many citrus farmers. Gamtoos Irrigation Board chairperson Pierre Joubert, who also sits on the Algoa Water Study Group, said it was essential that the department seriously considered raising the Kouga Dam wall to add to the region’s water security. Raising the 82m-high wall by an additional 15m has been under discussion for more than 10 years, and is part of the Algoa Water Study Group’s long- term recommendations to the department.

- Brian Hayward  The Herald 14 Jul’11

“We expect the SA market for wind-power to grow significantly over the next three years. I’ve had various meeting with role-players,  including government officials, and it seems clear to me that the current SA administration is intent upon moving increasingly towards renewable as far as energy supply is concerned.”

Applications for at least 88 wind farms have been received by the Eastern and Western Cape authorities and some of these wind farms are expected to have as many as 600 turbines located on them.

According to figures submitted to the Department of Environment Affairs there are 40 wind farms likely to be erected in the Western Cape and if these are approved, about 2 800 turbines will be installed around the province.

At least five of the proposals for new wind farms have not stipulated how many turbines they are likely to build to supply electricity to the provincial grid.

There are 31 applications for wind farms in the Eastern Cape.

Each wind farm application has to be accompanied by an environmental impact assessment. Each turbine is between 80 metres and 120 metres tall, the height of a 20-or 30-storey building.

The wind farms sites are all reasonably close to the national electricity grid but are scattered throughout the provinces and sited in places where there is a consistent supply of wind.

Many of them are planned for spots along the windy West Coast stretching from Darling (about 60 km north of Cape Town) to Vredendal on the Olifants River, 300 km away from the city.

There are eight wind farms proposed for the Garden Route, four around Swellendam, two near Mossel Bayand fiver in the Overberg. There are also three farms planned for Caledon and two in Bredasdorp.

The smallest wind farm application is at Albertinia where just six turbines are likely to be built. The biggest wind farm is expected to rise at Middleton near Bedford in the Eastern Cape where 685 turbines will be built if the province approves the plan.

Several wind farms are planned for the Karoo and many of these are also large. Outside Beaufort West one farm will have about 275 turbines while another near Laingsburg will comprise 400 turbines.

The government’s Integrated Resource Plan 2010 says that 19,7% of new electricity generation will come from wind power as part of its plan to stop the country’s reliance on coal-fired electricity generation in the future.

In terms of the Integrated Resource Plan (developed by Government), SA will have approximately 11 000MW of wind power by 2030, which might be 3000 turbines in all across the entire country.