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What is water scarcity?
Imbalances between availability and [...]
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tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/27/kick-the-bottle-habit/”; Save resources by drinking from a glass whenever you can, or use a refillable, stainless steel bottle when you are on the go. Ever wonder where most of those plastic water bottles go that we knock back from every day? Into landfills, where they live on and on [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/17/sa-companies-have-no-water-policies/”; Cape Town – South Africa is one of the 30 driest countries in the world, but relatively few local companies have a formal management plan in place to tackle water-related issues. This is among the results of field research contained in the latest edition of The Environmental Handbook: [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/12/going-solar-%e2%80%93-some-facts-about-solar-energy/”; Wherever you go these days, you see something about solar energy, on TV, the newspapers, magazines and many other mediums. Whether you’re talking about solar panels, solar gadgets, solar geysers or solar pool heaters – advertisers are increasingly trying to get our attention to renewable energy. But what’s the big deal? [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/07/four-year-plan-for-green-cape/”; The provincial government plans to have 15 percent of all electricity used in the Western Cape generated from renewable energy sources – like wind, wave and solar – by 2014. It also aims to reduce electricity use in selected schools and hospitals by between 5 and [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/06/bangkok-adding-solar-to-grid/”; Thailand’s energy minister ceremonially broke ground Thursday on what will become the largest solar farm in Southeast Asia. The outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, will be home to a 44-megawatt solar farm to be completed by the end of 2011. The plant dovetails with the country’s aim [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/06/solar-roadways-for-a-sustainable-future/”; The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. The Vision Our long range goal is to cover all concrete and asphalt surfaces that are exposed to the sun with Solar Road Panels. This will lead to the end of our [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/04/eskom-signs-iea-clean-coal-agreement-on-behalf-of-sa/”; Power utility Eskom would now represent South Africa on the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Clean Coal Centre, which is a subsidiary of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Eskom signed a contracting partnership with the IEA, which upgraded Eskom’s existing sponsor membership [...] tweetmeme_url = “http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2010/08/04/authorised-water-tank-dealers-for-jojo-tanks/”; JOJO TANKS HISTORY Jan Joubert established JoJo Tanks (Pty) Ltd during the 1970’s. Originally tanks were manufactured from fiberglass but in 1981, the company switched to manufacturing polyethylene tanks, using a rotational moulding process in order to supply the more robust tanks required in the agricultural and chemical [...] |
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