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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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
Posted in Dam Levels, Grey Water Recycling, Rainwater Harvesting, Recycle, Water Conservation, Water Tanks, Weather
Tagged Dry Lawn, Eastern Cape Weather, Garden Irrigation, Garden Rhapsody, going green, Grey Water Recycling, Greywater re-use, Heat Wave, JoJo Tanks, Natural Resources, Nelson Mandela Bay Weather, Rain fall, Save Garden, Water Rhapsody, Water tips
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Go Green in 4 Weeks
Week 3 Day 15: Go paperless. With email and online invoicing, there aren’t many reasons why you shouldn’t be using less paper. Use the internet as much as possible and eliminate the need for paper waste. Day 16: Handel with care. Taking care of what you have is an essential part of being green. The longer you are able to use existing items, the less waste you’ll create by buying new things. Day 17: Plant a plant. Having house or office plants are not just aesthetically pleasing, they also help keep the air you breathe clean and fresh. Day 18: Collect your cans. During the first week of your green plan, you started recycling paper. Now you are ready to move up the recycling grid to cans. Contact Collect-a-Can to find your nearest collection point. Before you recycle them, make sure they are clean and dry. Day 19: Repurpose your rubbish. Before you throw out or give away the great items you have lying around in your home, think of creative ways to re-use your treasures. You may find that your old ladder could make an interesting shelf. Day 20: Buy local. Purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables reduces the … Continue reading
Go Green in 4 Weeks!
Four weeks doesn’t sound like a long time, but by making small changes every day for a month you will be able to tackle the task of Going Green with ease. WEEK 1 Day 1: Start with you paper. While there are many household items you can recycle, start with a commonly used material. Recycling paper is easy because it does not require anything much else but sorting. Simply contact Mondy Paper Pick-up and find out more about their paper pickup scheme. Day 2: Bring your own bag. Elimination the need for plastic shopping bags is a great way to reduce waste and will save you money. There is no need to buy one of those reusable bags that the shops have for sale, as you probably have a suitable bag at home already. Day 3: Turn of the tap. Make sure that all your taps completely close every time you use them. Leaking taps waste litres and litres of water unnecessarily. Change your habits and don’t let taps run in the bathroom, while you are brushing your teeth, shaving or in the kitchen, when preparing food. Day 4: Eliminate paper/plastic cups from your life. Have your favourite coffee … Continue reading
Global Water Scarcity
Threat or Opportunity for Aquaculture? (An Article by Leslie Ter Morshuizen from Aquaculture Innovations) The shortage of suitable freshwater resources is fast becoming a global catastrophe. How do we know this? In the 20th century the global population tripled and currently 220 000 people are born daily. This population growth, along with industrialisation and urbanisation, has resulted in several countries facing serious water shortages. A direct result of this is that 50% of hospital beds are occupied by sufferers of poor water related conditions. It may seem hard to believe, but globally more people have cellular phones than access to a toilet. And water usage in agriculture? Well, 70% of freshwater resources are allocated to agriculture. Practical usage includes: 25 000 ℓ of water to raise 1 kg of beef 4 000 ℓ to raise 1kg of chicken 1 120 ℓ to produce a cup of coffee 125 ℓ to produce a sheet of paper (please don’t print this!) As a result of this looming water crisis, social and government agencies are looking for ways in which to limit new water allocations, reduce the usage by existing users and improve the quality of effluent water. This is all in an … Continue reading
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Tagged going green, Natural Resources, Water Conservation
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Get the frack out of my Karoo
Oh good, we’ve found a new way to ruin the environment Matthew Du Plessis: “Fracking” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. In the good old days, it was a wholesome substitute for an unprintable expletive – used to its highest glory and fullest effect in the television series Battlestar Galactica. Hearing Starbuck curse was an object lesson in the poetry of vloeking. It was from the heart. The new meaning of “fracking” doesn’t come from the heart. Instead, it’s a punch to the gut. The word “fracking” is a convenient abbreviation of the phrase “hydraulic fracture”. I’ll tell you more about that in a second.
How to control Mosquitoes in my water tank
Do you experience a mosquito infestation in your water tank? Lets learn more about these suckers and how to prevent them from getting into your rainwater tank. In the mosquitoes world it is only the adult females that bite man and other animals. The male mosquitoes feed only on plant juices. Female mosquitoes feed on man, domesticated animals, such as cattle, horses, goats, dogs, all types of birds including chickens; all types of wild animals; and they also feed on snakes, lizards, and frogs. Most female mosquitoes have to feed on an animal and get a sufficient blood meal before she can develop eggs. Eggs are laid one at a time and they float on the surface of the water. Most eggs hatch into larvae within 48 hours. The larva (larvae – plural) live in the water and come to the surface to breathe. They shed their skin four times growing larger after each molting. Most larvae have siphon tubes for breathing and hang from the water surface. The larvae feed on micro-organisms and organic matter in the water. On the fourth molt the larva changes into a pupa. The pupa stage is a resting, non-feeding stage. This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Water Conservation, Water Tanks
Tagged going green, Rainwater Harvesting, Saving water, Water Rhapsody, Water tanks
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Red Worms in your Water Tank
What are those red worms in your water tank? They are called Bloodworms. Bloodworms are one stage in the life cycle of the non-biting Midge fly. The red colour comes from haemoglobin in the Midge fly’s blood and has no reference to any blood sucking activity. They are herbivorous and feed on algae and other plants or waste material – therefore harmless to you or your animals. Many fish keepers buy bloodworms as a protein rich food for their fish. The non-biting Midge looks like a mosquito, but doesn’t bite. Midges live near water and are found in streams, rivers, ditches, lakes and ponds – and of course your water tank. The midge develops in a life cycle that includes four stages: egg, larvae (bloodworm), pupae and adult. The larvae stadia last between 2 to 7 weeks. The best cure is prevention. Water Rhapsody always ensures that your rainwater harvesting system is a closed system and does not allow any entry for water based breeding insect. We make use of Rain Runners to first sift the water from the gutters before diverting it to the tank. We only make use of the existing outlet/inlet to the tank – no holes … Continue reading
Posted in Rainwater Harvesting, Water Tanks
Tagged Dam Levels, going green, Water Conservation, Water tanks, Waterproblem
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Interesting Facts about Electricity
A spark of static electricity can measure up to three thousand (3,000) volts. A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million (3,000,000) volts – and it lasts less than one second! Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground. Electricity can be made from wind, water, the sun and even animal manure. Burning coal is the most common way electricity is made in the United States. The first power plant – owned by Thomas Edison – opened in New York City in 1882. Thomas Edison invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets and meters. Benjamin Franklin didn’t discover electricity – but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy. One power plant can produce enough electricity for 180,000 homes. Alternative Energy The bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation known. It uses five times less energy than walking. B.C.’s forest industry obtains 25% of its electricity from biomass — in this case, the waste material from their own industry. A system of distribution and transmission lines brings electricity to southern Manitoba through 70,000 km of lines. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solar Geysers, Solar Power, Solar Water Heating, Water Conservation, Water Tanks
Tagged Alternative Energy, going green, Saving Electricity, Solar geysers, Solar panels, Solar power, Static Elecrisity Spark, Wind Tubine, Wind Tunnels, Yes Solar
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Fascinating Facts about Energy
Science Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be converted from one form to another. Find an elastic band, and stretch it out. The stretched rubber band has potential energy. If you let it go, it moves and has kinetic energy. Have you ever wondered how you might get a hot air balloon to float up and down? How would you launch it? How would you get it back to earth? The balloon rises by warming up the air inside it. It descends by letting the air inside it cool down. It all works because of heat energy. Electricity travels at 300,000 km/sec. If you travelled that fast, you could travel around the world eight times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch. The energy produced by the atom-splitting of one kilogram of uranium is equivalent to the burning of 1.3 million kilograms of coal or 1.35 million litres of oil. People run on energy too, and food is our fuel. The unit we use to measure expended heat energy is the calorie. Calorie expenditures comparison: Lying at ease – 1.5 cal/min Tennis – 7 cal/min Playing drums – 4–6 cal/min Golfing – 6 … Continue reading
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Tagged Electricity, Energy, going green, Hot Air Balloon, Hydrogen Nuclei, Interesting Facts about Energy, Natural Resources, Saving Electricity, Saving water, Water tanks, Yes Solar
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