JG Afrika helps accelerate professional registrations

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JG Afrika helps accelerate professional registrations

JG Afrika, a leading firm of consulting engineers, is helping its young engineers and technicians attain professional registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). Eleven candidates were successfully registered as professional engineers recently: six from the firm’s Cape Town office, two from its Pietermaritzburg branch and two from Johannesburg. A further three candidates are currently preparing for their registrations this year.

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Aurecon plays a vital role in ensuring water security for South Africa

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Aurecon plays a vital role in ensuring water security for South Africa

Aurecon Technical Director James Cullis says, “Not only is it vital that South Africa continues to invest in the development of its physical water infrastructure systems, we must also invest in the people who manage these system and maintain our critical ecological infrastructure such as wetlands, catchments, groundwater aquifers, and river systems.”

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What to look for when drilling a borehole

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What to look for when drilling a borehole

Most popular article in 2019 based on page views! To alleviate the strain on municipal water, many municipalities are encouraging home owners to drill boreholes on their properties. But what should end-users consider before making this investment? In this article, we give an overview of some of the aspects you should consider.

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Water Use Licence Application and Authorisation System (e-WULAAS)

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Water Use Licence Application and Authorisation System (e-WULAAS)

The mandate of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is to protect, use, develop, conserve, manage and control the country's water resources in an integrated manner. The online Water Use Licence Application and Authorisation System (e-WULAAS) is a tool to manage the authorisation of water use.

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National Groundwater Information System (NGIS)

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National Groundwater Information System (NGIS)

National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) is a portfolio of projects designed to meet increasing demands for groundwater information in a rapidly changing water business environment. The portfolio of the NGIS project includes several applications, namely NGA, CHART and the Geohydrological Reports System.

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Why did my pump stop delivering water?

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Why did my pump stop delivering water?

All too often when a pump stops delivering water it is removed, repaired and reinstalled in the same conditions. A detailed and careful look at the performance history of the installation and the symptoms of failure will lead to corrective or remedial actions being taken to prevent a similar failure from occurring in the future. This process is known as a Root Cause Analysis.

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