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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JoJo Water Tank Prices
JoJo Water Tank Special: 2500l – R1795 5000l – R2995 Includes VAT and delivery in the NMB area. Click here for available Colours
EC Rainfall figures 09 May 2011
Here is the latest rainfall figures for the last 24 hours as on 09 June 2011 Dam levels wil be updated in the days to come. Our client’s tanks are overflowing and they will not use any municipal water for some time to come. EASTERN CAPE ADDO ELEPHANT PARK 26 ALL SAINTS AWS 07 BISHO 55 BUFFELSFONTEIN 04 CAPE ST FRANCIS 87 DOHNE – AGR 33 EAST LONDON WO 27 ELANDS RIVER-BOSBOK RAND 89 ELLIOT 06 FLOWER RESERVE ARS 75 FORT BEAUFORT 43 GRAHAMSTOWN 34 JOUBERTINA AWS 33 KLIPPLAAT ARS 03 KRIEGERS KRAAL ARS 26 NGQURA (COEGA) 56 PATENSIE 28 PORT ALFRED – AIRPORT 24 PORT ELIZABETH – RIVERSTONE BRIDGE ARS 63 PORT ELIZABETH AWS 38 PORT ELIZABETH-LOVEMORE RES ARS 66 QUEENSTOWN 21 SOMERSET EAST 09 TSITSIKAMMA 68 UITENHAGE 125 UMTHATHA WO 32 WILLOWMORE 03
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 !
Water a commodity or a resource?
This is all about water, the stuff we drink, wash in, use it as a medium to carry away our urine and fecal matter, and irrigate our gardens. Furthermore industry and commerce use evaporation of water for cooling in air conditioning plants, and a whole host of other uses. When referring to water do we know the difference between water as a commodity and resource?
Sinking Solutions for Mining Water Pollution
Sinking Solutions for Mining Water Pollution in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg. It faces the looming threat of toxic water spewing out of idle mines as early as next year, unless government steps in to prevent an “environmental disaster”, Terence McCarthy, professor of geology at the University of Witwatersrand”. In a report entitled “The decanting of acid mine drainage in the Gauteng city-region”, McCarthy said government should bear the costs of dealing with the acid mine drainage (AMD) problem – the toxic water trapped in the mine void in the Witwatersrand, which stretches from Roodepoort to Boksburg. Most mines in this region are no longer operational. AMD occurs due to the outflow of acidic and heavy metals-laden water from Witwatersrand-based mines, which threatens to pollute surface and ground water. According to his findings, McCarthy said in 2011, possibly 2012, AMD will seep up through the main shaft at Gold Reef City, and this underground facility will be forced to shut down. Boksburg, he warned, could see acid mine drainage rising up through drainage points, spewing toxic filth into the town.
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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Radio Interview with Water Rhapsody’s Founder
We are proud to share this interview with Jeremy Westgarth-Taylor on SAFM with everybody. After reading through this, we hope the necessity of harvesting rainwater, specially through the Water Rhapsody System, will become not only a consideration to you, but a must-have to all households and businesses. Try to make use of natural water supply to help keep you going during the times when water is scarce. Radio Interview on SAFM 104 – 107 with Karabo 14hr30. 18 January 2011 TRANSCRIPT NOT VERBATIM Are we doing enough to control flooding? On the line we have Jeremy the founder of Water Rhapsody. Welcome Jeremy, are we doing enough to control flooding? J Flooding should not be seen as a bad thing. Water that reaches the sea from rivers is not wasted water. Estuaries need floods to be able to function as estuaries. Rivers need to have the mouths to the sea scoured from flooding which makes a flood a good thing. Estuaries are places where sea fish swim during floods to breed and spawn to procreate more, and because of over extraction of water from rivers, there is between three and four percent of fish left in the sea that there … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Dam Levels, Green, Rainwater Harvesting, Water Conservation, Water Tanks, Weather
Tagged Augment Supply, Dam Levels, Drought, Eastern Cape, Flood Control, Flooding, Natural Resources, Rain fall, Rainwater Harvesting, Saving water, Water Rhapsody, Water tanks
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What is Climate Change?
Outline of the potential problem of climate change and its cause as understood by the South African Weather Service The climate of the world varies from one decade to another, and a changing climate is natural and expected. However, there is a concern that the human industrial and development activities of the past two centuries have caused changes over and above natural variation… What is climate change? Climate change is the natural cycle through which the earth and its atmosphere are going to accommodate the change in the amount of energy received from the sun. The climate goes through warm and cold periods, taking hundreds of years to complete one cycle. Changes in temperature also influence the rainfall, but the biosphere is able to adapt to a changing climate if these changes take place over centuries. Unfortunately, human intervention is currently causing the climate to change too fast. (Climate models predict that the mean air temperature over South Africa will increase by an estimated 2°C over the next century.) Plants and animals may not be able to adapt as quickly to this rapid climate change as humans can, and therefore the whole ecosystem is in danger. What causes climate change? … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Dam Levels, Green, Grey Water Recycling, Rainwater Harvesting, Renewable Energy, safe water, Solar Energy, Water Conservation, Water Tanks
Tagged Climate Change, Dam Levels, Global Concern, Rainwater Harvesting, Saving water, Water Conservation, Water Rhapsody, Yes Solar
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Grahamstown: Limited Water
“Serious water shortage in Grahamstown causes some areas to have access to water only one hour per day. It is especially rural settlement Vukani that are being hit by this the worst. During a public meeting earlier this week held by The Movement for Unemployed People, it became clear that the only hour water would be available is during the middle of the night. Around 50 people, mostly woman, from the Vukani Location attended the meeting. Prof. Denis Hughes, the Director for Water Research at Rhodes University acted as chairperson for the meeting. Both the Makana Municipality’s municipal manager, Me. Ntombi Baart and Mr. Dabula Njilo, director of Technical and Infrastructural Services were expected to attend the meeting to explain to the public what the state of the situation is, but none showed up.” Die Burger, 26 Nov’10 – Anna-Karien Otto Let this not be said from your town one of these days. Try to start changing your lifestyle and think different about water and the usage thereof. Contact Water Rhapsody to give you a quote on greywater re-use, recycling your pool’s backwash water, saving the amount of toilet flushing-water, being prepared to harvest rainwater etc. Do what you can … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Green, Grey Water Recycling, Rainwater Harvesting, safe water, Solar Energy, Solar Geysers, Water Conservation, Water Tanks, Weather
Tagged drought disaster area, Grahamstown, Greywater re-use, Natural Resources, Rainwater Harvesting, Saving water, Solar geysers, Vukani Location, Water Conservation, Water Restrictions, water safe, Water Stress, Water tanks, Yes Solar
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