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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24h Rainfall – Get Water tanks from Water Rhapsody NOW!
Daily Rainfall over South Africa to the nearest mm Preliminary 24-hour rainfall data ending at 08:00 on the 2010-06-09 Rainfall in whole mm EASTERN CAPE ADDO ELEPHANT PARK 02 ALEXANDRIA – POL 01 CAPE ST FRANCIS 14 FLOWER RESERVE ARS 05 HUMANSDORP 13 JOUBERTINA AWS 05 KAREEDOUW – POL 12 NGQURA (COEGA) 04 PATENSIE 15 PORT ELIZABETH WO 12 ST ALBANS PRISON ARS 13 THIRD AVENUE DIP ARS 16 TSITSIKAMMA 07 UITENHAGE 05 WILLOWMORE 03
Rainwater Tanks: Part 2
Trends in Water Tanks There are many styles of water tanks available, with new innovations coming out all the time. The most common types of tanks are the plastic or polymer tanks which are traditionally been round in shape. These days, manufacturers are working with rectangular or square designs which are often much easier to place within a home and look much less intrusive. These tanks are also available in a huge range of colours, so that they are able to suit any home colour scheme. Steel tanks are still common, also, and these are usually lined with polyethylene in order to prevent corrosion. While round is still the most common shape, it seems that manufacturers are finding new ways to work with steel all the time. Concrete water tanks are best if you need to locate your tank underground. As thy are load-bearing, they are great for placing under things such as driveways and entertaining areas. More foreign designs: One new innovation in water tank design is to design the tank so that it resembles a boulder or a rock. This allows the tank to be placed unobtrusively within the landscape, so that the casual observer wouldn’t even know … Continue reading
Water Rhapsody provide in all your needs!
I read in a newspaper article today, all the Alternative ways to use your rain water. To start with, Water Rhapsody will help you to install water tanks at your premises. We will help you to decide which size water tank for the size of your house you need and will suit you best. By adding our unique device called a Rain Runner at every down pipe, the water is sieved clear before it reached your water tank. Usually the harvested rainwater are being used to irrigate your garden and lawn, but there are many more ways you can utilise your water and conserve municipality water: ” Only recently introduces in South Africa there is now a controller system on the market which can switch automatically between municipal supply and rainwater tanks, based on whether or not there are rainwater available for use”. – Not so true, we (Water Rhapsody) have been installing our systems for 16 years throughout South Africa. Our Grand Opus System also has a municipal water inlet, which can be used as is needed. In rainy seasons, the whole household can be supplied only by rainwater, never needing to make use of municipal water, should the tank … Continue reading
Groundwater Pollution
Groundwater pollution is a very serious problem. Unlike a lot of the pollution on the surface waters, like trash floating in the bay, groundwater pollution is harder to recognize until after illness has occurred. Groundwater, which is the water that remains under the ground and is tapped into to provide drinking water for homes is generally polluted by the activities that occur just above it. People are the number one cause of groundwater pollution. Having water samples tested regularly is the only way to be sure that the groundwater is not contaminated. Unfortunately, there are a multitude of potentiol groundwater pollutants that can seriously contaminate drinking water. Most ground water pollution happens because of improper disposal, use or stotage of chemicals, pesticides, or substances like car engine oil. Deicing salts that are used for clearing driveways and pathways can contaminate groundwater. Landfills have been known to cause toxic runoff that infiltrated the groundwaters supply and underground tanks for storing gasoline and diesel for petrol stations can develop minor leaks and seep into the ground. A groundwater supply that is directly over a plot filled with animals, such as a farm environment, can be contaminated with the bacteria from aminal waste, The chronic use of … Continue reading
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Tagged Groundwater, Pollution, safe water, Water Conservation, Water tips, Waterproblem, Waterwise
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Water tariffs increasing soon!
Nelson Mandela Bay residents can expect a massive increase in punitive water tariffs, applying to consumers who use more than 15 kilolitre per month. DA caucus leader: Leon de Villiers introduced an urgent motion at yesterday’s budget and treasury committee meeting, saying he had received notification on Monday evening that the municipality was poised to introduce a much higher punitive tariff. The letter, dated 11 May, said the decision followed a meeting of the water management committee on May 5 that had accepted the need for a ‘considerable’ increase in the light of the ongoing drought that has already seen the metro declared a disaster area. The details of the planned increase would be made available at next week’s joint meeting of bugdet and treasury and the mayoral committee, he was told. According to Water and Sanitation Director, Mr Barry Martin, the metro is experiencing the ravages of ’a green drought’. Rain has been received in the city areas, but unfortunately not where it is most necessary to supply the same area with daily water. A briefing on the Emergency Drought Implementaion Plan has been arranged for tomorrow. The combined capacity ot the metro’s dams currently stand at 35.05%. The Kouga … Continue reading
“Water-shedding” in the pipeline for Grahamstown
Due to the consistently low levels of dams in the Grahamstown area, the Makana Municipality is considering limiting water supplies in some parts of town. Addressing a media conference on Thursday, Makana Municipal Manager Ntombi Baart said this “water-shedding” process will help the municipality to meet its demand for water supply. She added that this process of regular water cuts would work in a similar fashion to the electricity load shedding which is occasionally carried out by Eskom. Explaining how the municipality’s water operations sank to the level where they are “erratic” to the extent that the residents start questioning the water quality, Baart blamed the situation on earlier municipal reports which were never addressed.
Interesting information re Grey Water Recycling
Grey water is the domestic or household wastewater that comes from the laundry and bathroom. When treated properly this is safe for external use. Toilet water on the other hand is termed ‘black water’ and cannot be reused. Kitchen water is technically grey water; it is treated as black water as it often contains food and grease. Water Rhapsody can help you recycle your household grey water for use on garden beds. It is an excellent way of saving water and saving money! Grey water is available every time you shower or wash with the average house creating up to 83,000 litres of grey water per year. Your grey water is suitable for irrigating most garden areas including ornamental beds and lawns. When watering native gardens remember to use a type of detergent that has low levels or has no phosphorus. Treatment before irrigation? Plants and soil, especially the upper, most biologically active layer of soil, are fantastically effective for wastewater treatment. Pretreatment is often presented as an essential element in a grey water system, when in fact it may be more pointless than treating your wastewater before sending it down the sewer. Plants and soil are fine with … Continue reading
Large Hikes in SA’s drinking water tariffs on cards
South Africa’s water boards are proposing increases of between 6.2% and 43% to the cost of the potable bulk water they supply to the country’s municipalities. Such tariff increases, if accepted, are likely to push up the cost of drinking water sold to end-users by municipalities. The proposals, details of which are contained in a document tabled at a meeting of Parliament’s Water Affairs portfolio committee yesterday, appear to fly in the face of an announcement made by Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica last month. “I want to allay the fears of South Africans that there is in the near furture a possibility of a (tariff) hike. It’s not in the pipeline, ” she told a media briefing at Parliament on April 13. Questioned about this later yesterday, the department’s media liaison director, Linda Page, said there was no contradiction. “You will remember the minister was responding to a question on whether there are likely to be tariff increases linked to funding for infrastructure and thus potential increases in the price of raw water. The increases that the water boards are proposing…. are the normal annual increases linked to the CPIX because they operate on a cost recovery basis,” she … Continue reading
Innovations needed as climate change sees water supplies dwindle – Andrew Muir
LARGELY due to climate change, South Africa is becoming drier from the west to the east. Climate modelling for our area shows that our annual precipitation (rainfall) will reduce by between 10% and 15% at current warming levels. As a result, along coastal areas fresh water has to be transported from further and further afield to meet the demand of ever-growing urban areas. This has become a worldwide challenge, and around the globe researchers and scientists have being looking at the use of technology to increase the supply of fresh water. Proposals include towing icebergs from Antarctica to water-stressed regions, cloud-seeding, desalination plants and extracting fresh water from deep submarine aquifers. A longstanding proposal beginning in the late 1970s has been to tow icebergs from Antarctica to supply fresh water to water-scarce regions of the world. One major challenge to this proposal has been how to tow the icebergs towards the equatorial zone without them melting before reaching their destination. Cloud-seeding is a process in which dry ice or potassium iodide particles are used to increase rainfall. Although there is little scientific evidence that this actually works, many communities faced with water shortages are willing to try it. There is … Continue reading
R750-Million for Desalination Plant not available
Two weeks ago I posted the report that our Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has said that her department was forging ahead with plans to supply desalinated water to Cape Town, and furthermore extract water from the Table Mountain (TM) aquifer. This week it was reported in The Algoa Sun, that since Nelson Mandela Bay was declared a drought disaster area, very little has been done to pull the area out of the crisis. Municipal spokesman Kupido Baron says that since the declaration, the minutes of the meeting were send to the national and provincial disaster management centres. “We have received feedback from the national centre which has assessed the area and confirmed our situation,” said Baron. However, no funding has been made available to the municipality thus far. He said in the interim, funding would have to be allocated from the current municipal budget. According to Baron there are several facets of the disaster plan that have already been set in motion. They currently had four reputable companies working with the municipality to determine the environmental impact a deslination plant would have in and area.”An area close to the Swartkops power station on the Swartkops River has been identified … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Water Recycling, Rainwater Harvesting, Water Conservation, Weather
Tagged Dam Levels, drought disaster area, Eastern Cape, Greywater re-use, Port Elizabeth, Rain fall, Rainwater Harvesting, Saving water, Water Conservation, Water Restrictions, Water sources, Waterproblem
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