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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-07-25
Nam to host water conference
NAMIBIA, a pioneer in direct potable water re-use in the world, will host the Ninth International Water Association Conference on water reclamation here in October this year.
The event is slated from 27 to 31 October 2013, and will host about 450 water professionals and academics from the United States of America (USA), Europe, South America, Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, and South Africa.
Conference chairperson Piet du Pisani told Nampa this week Windhoek is the pioneer on direct drinkable water re-use, and the event will give Namibia the opportunity to showcase the Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant here.
The Plant was built in 1968 by the City of Windhoek to reclaim water directly from domestic sewage effluent.
Over the past 30 years the process was improved and the plant’s capacity extended to 2,9 millimetres per annum. Due to the fact that all naturally available water sources in and around the capital have been fully harnessed, the new plant was completed in 2002, and comprises the latest available proven water treatment technology. This was done in order to ensure the total utilisation of available effluent from domestic waste water to ensure the security of water supply for the future. The new plant has been based on extensive experience, research done locally, and on input from international experts to assure the compliance to the strictest water quality guidelines applied internationally.
Reclaimed water, which is waste water which has been treated to levels suitable for re-use, can provide a safe and reliable source for both non-potable and potable urban water supply.
Du Pisani noted that in the capital, direct potable reclamation, artificial aquifer recharge, water demand management and dual pipe irrigation systems have become part of standard vocabulary.
These processes had been embraced before the terms integrated water resource management and closing the water loop, had been coined.
The agenda of the conference include re-use in water resource management; water-energy nexus in water re-use; climate impacts on water re-use; science and technology in water reclamation; emerging pollutants and technological advances; groundwater replenishment and recovery; potable re-use as safe resource; desalination for water re-use; industrial and mining water re-use; economics of water re-use; regulation, governance and institutional arrangements for re-use; as well as human dimensions of water re-use.
Meanwhile, during the Global Sustainable Development Conference which took place in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, the City of Windhoek received thumbs-up for protecting water supplies and halting environmental degradation.
A report, which was issued by Local Governments for Sustainability - founded in 1990 as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives - and the United Nations’ Environment Programme cited the City of Windhoek, which introduced an environmental management plan to protect the water supply at the Goreangab Dam from contamination by the mushrooming nearby informal settlements.
– Nampa
The event is slated from 27 to 31 October 2013, and will host about 450 water professionals and academics from the United States of America (USA), Europe, South America, Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, Mexico, and South Africa.
Conference chairperson Piet du Pisani told Nampa this week Windhoek is the pioneer on direct drinkable water re-use, and the event will give Namibia the opportunity to showcase the Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant here.
The Plant was built in 1968 by the City of Windhoek to reclaim water directly from domestic sewage effluent.
Over the past 30 years the process was improved and the plant’s capacity extended to 2,9 millimetres per annum. Due to the fact that all naturally available water sources in and around the capital have been fully harnessed, the new plant was completed in 2002, and comprises the latest available proven water treatment technology. This was done in order to ensure the total utilisation of available effluent from domestic waste water to ensure the security of water supply for the future. The new plant has been based on extensive experience, research done locally, and on input from international experts to assure the compliance to the strictest water quality guidelines applied internationally.
Reclaimed water, which is waste water which has been treated to levels suitable for re-use, can provide a safe and reliable source for both non-potable and potable urban water supply.
Du Pisani noted that in the capital, direct potable reclamation, artificial aquifer recharge, water demand management and dual pipe irrigation systems have become part of standard vocabulary.
These processes had been embraced before the terms integrated water resource management and closing the water loop, had been coined.
The agenda of the conference include re-use in water resource management; water-energy nexus in water re-use; climate impacts on water re-use; science and technology in water reclamation; emerging pollutants and technological advances; groundwater replenishment and recovery; potable re-use as safe resource; desalination for water re-use; industrial and mining water re-use; economics of water re-use; regulation, governance and institutional arrangements for re-use; as well as human dimensions of water re-use.
Meanwhile, during the Global Sustainable Development Conference which took place in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, the City of Windhoek received thumbs-up for protecting water supplies and halting environmental degradation.
A report, which was issued by Local Governments for Sustainability - founded in 1990 as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives - and the United Nations’ Environment Programme cited the City of Windhoek, which introduced an environmental management plan to protect the water supply at the Goreangab Dam from contamination by the mushrooming nearby informal settlements.
– Nampa
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