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Eastern Cape: Extremely Uncomfortable; Heat Wave

Ansie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:28:12 +0000

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 Frans @ 082 7712 062 or Ansie @ 082 851 9761

The Package of Decisions made at COP 17 in Durban 2011:

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:01:12 +0000

The Package of decisions known as the Durban Platform, centered around adaption, green climate fund, technology and strategies to support developing countries.
Work will begin on this immediately under a new group called the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.
“I salute the countries who made this agreement. They have all laid aside some cherished objectives of their own to meet a common purpose – a long-term solution to climate change,” said Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Figueres said this is highly significant because the Kyoto Protocol’s accounting rules, mechanisms and markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform future agreements.
A significantly advanced framework for the reporting of emission reductions for both developed and developing countries was also agreed, taking into consideration the common but differentiated responsibilities.
Governments also agreed on the full implementation of The Package to support developing nations, agreed last year in Cancun, Mexico.
“This means that urgent support for the developing world, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable to adapt to climate change, will also be launched on time,” said Figueres.
The Package includes the Green Climate Fund, an Adaptation Committee designed to improve the coordination of adaptation actions on a global scale, and a Technology Mechanism, which are to become fully operational in 2012.
“While it is clear that these deadlines must be met, countries, citizens and businesses that have been behind the rising global wave of climate action can now push ahead confidently, knowing that Durban has lit up a broader highway to a low-emission, climate resilient future,” said Figueres.

Details of key decisions that emerged from COP17 include:
Green Climate Fund
- Countries have already started to pledge to contribute to start-up costs of the fund, meaning it can be made ready in 2012, and at the same time can help developing countries get ready to access the fund, boosting their efforts to establish their own clean energy futures and adapt to existing climate change.
- A focussed work programme on long-term finance was agreed, which will contribute to the scaling up of climate change finance going forward and will analyse options for the mobilisation of resources from a variety of sources.
Adaptation
- The Adaptation Committee, composed of 16 members, will report to the COP (Conference of the Parties) on its efforts to improve the coordination of adaptation (measuring) actions at a global scale.
- The adaptive capacities above all of the poorest and most vulnerable countries are to be strengthened. National Adaptation Plans will allow developing countries to assess and reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
The most vulnerable are to receive better protection against loss and damage caused by extreme weather events related to climate change.
Technology
- will become fully operational in 2012. The full terms of reference for the operational arm of the Mechanism – the Climate Technology Centre and Network – are agreed, along with a clear procedure to select the host. The UNFCCC secretariat will issue a call for proposals for hosts on 16 January 2012.
Support of developing country action
- Governments agreed a registry to record developing country mitigation (reducing) actions that seek financial support and to match these with support. The registry will be a flexible, dynamic, web-based platform.
Other key decisions
- A forum and work programme on unintended consequences of climate change actions and policies were established.
- Under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, governments adopted procedures to allow carbon-capture and storage projects. These guidelines will be reviewed every five years to ensure environmental integrity.
Governments agreed to develop a new market-based mechanism to assist developed countries in meeting part of their targets or commitments under the Convention. Details of this will be taken forward in 2012.

The COP18/CMP8, will take place on 26 November to 7 December 2012 in Qatar, in close cooperation with the Republic of Korea.

– BuaNews

Polar Bear Attack!

admin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:10:44 +0000

Bear Attack in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada!

These are pictures of an actual polar bear attacking a man.

The pictures were taken while people watched and could do nothing to stop the attack!

Reports from the local newspaper say that the victim will make a full recovery.

The photos follow… not for the meek.

May your troubles always be smaller

than your imagination!

Water Rhapsody Team EC

Harvest Rainwater with Jojo Tanks!

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:07:33 +0000

It’s time to start preparing to harvest rainwater at your house of business. Be ready to collect rainwater for your house, garden, your pool, laundry or for whatever need you might have for rainwater.

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.

The Poseidon Advantage

Ansie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:17:18 +0000

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 ‘The Poseidon Advantage’, and this is a short description of it:

The Poseidon Advantage

A flexible system to digest the food content of “Grey Water” Grey water contains BOD (biological oxygen demand), and the BOD needs to be removed before filtration can take place.

The process of digestion may be anaerobic followed by aerobic, or simply aerobic, and the filtration may remove suspended solids only or both suspended and dissolved solids.

The applications to which this process may be put are the re-use of car wash water, irrigation through a drip or automated pressurized irrigation system, and for the re-use of clarified water to flush toilets through conventional cisterns.

Meet Water Rhapsody at Homemakers Expo

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:45:41 +0000

We are currently exhibiting at the Homemakers Expo in Port Elizabeth at the Moffet-on-Main Centre from 28 – 31 July 2011 at stall no.48.

We have 2 demonstrations: the Water Rhapsody Multi-Flush. It will show you just how much water you really need to clean your toilet, and then how much water you really save when installing the Multi-flush at your home or business.

Then also do we demonstrate how the Water Rhapsody Grand Opus work. How you don’t need to have your tanks next to your house, and your water will be cleaned/filtered by the Water Rhapsody Rain Runners before it reaches your tanks.

We are also the proud dealers of Jojo Tanks. At the moment we have a very good price on the 2500l =R1650 and the 5000l = R2785. Get your Jojo brochure to select your colour. We also introduce the Marbleline Slimline. Visit us to see the new range.

Anything else, come speak with us. We’d like to meet you!

The Water Rhapsody Eastern Cape Team

Get the frack out of my Karoo

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:42:00 +0000

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.

First, let me set the scene. Picture, if you will, the Groot Karoo. Graaff Reinet. Ostrich territory. Dusty, scrub-covered terrain. Angora goats. Sheep. Boreholes. All right. Now hold that image as you cast your mind halfway around the world to where Big Energy has turned its attention from the PR disaster in which oil is engulfed, to the relatively unexplored miracle of natural gas. Until recently, it was very difficult to get to, but new drilling methods are able to clear a way down.

“Hydraulic fracturing” involves injecting vast amounts of chemically treated water into the cavities created in the drilling process, the pressure of which then fractures the rock formations around it, allowing the gas trapped in the shale to be harvested.

It turns out that many of the land owners who have leased their property out for this process are having a bit of a rough time. Sure, the actual equipment is about the size of a small van – hardly takes up any space at all. But it squirts some apparently rather dodgy chemicals into the ground. Which trickles down into the groundwater – and if the land is serviced by boreholes… well, you can imagine.

But if you can’t, the documentary film Gasland shows footage of people turning on the taps in their home, letting the water flow, and then bringing a lit match near to the running water. Have you ever seen running water, coming out of a tap, catching fire? Watch Gasland. In some instances, we’re talking fireballs.

In the film there’s also footage of farm and domestic animals with hair falling out, testimony from families who have developed serious and chronic illnesses, and energy executives insisting that there’s nothing wrong with the water – yet in the same breath refusing to drink any of it. Of course, the companies involved in the fracking deny there’s any risk to the public. They’ve got studies to prove the chemicals they use cause no harm to the water, the environment or to humans.

Our Karoo. Which lies atop a vast – and evidently gassy – shale formation. They’re lining up for it! Shell International and oil and gas company Falcon already have a licence to scout for gas. And potentially flood the Karoo’s groundwater with tasty chemicals.

Authorized Water Tank Dealers for JoJo Tanks

Ansie — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:16:53 +0000

Water Rhapsody dealers have become authorized dealers for JoJo Tanks.

Water tanks are available in a wide variety of sizes and dimensions – ranging from 100 litres through to 15000 litres. The most common tanks are the 2500 and 5000 litre tanks. The newest addition to the JoJo range is the Slimline tank, available in a wide variety of colours The elegant JoJo Slimline is 1800mm x 750mm, holts 750lt of water and fits easily through a regular door frame.

Water Rhapsody can install your water tank as well as advise and supply you with the various filters (Rain runners). The full rainwater harvesting system (Grand Opus) is a system that pumps rainwater collected in the water tank, back into your home. For more information contact your Water Rhapsody dealer in the Eastern Cape to get a free quote on tanks or any of our other systems.