Cape Town â The City of Cape Townâs R240m temporary desalination plant at Strandfontein Pavilion is on track, but it will only start producing the first two million litres of an expected seven million a day in March.
JSE-listed Growthpoint Properties and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), equal joint owners of the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town, will be commissioning a R184 million desalination plant in the precinct in March and April next year.
Under the 30-year PPP contract Ăguas de Fortaleza is due to invest 3.1bn reais (US$632mn) to build, operate and maintain the 1,000l/s plant that will supply potable water to Cageceâs Mucuripe and Praça da Imprensa reservoirs.Â
The contract is only for water supply for 24 months. After that, the equipment which is owned by the contractor, will be removed and the area rehabilitated.
âThis is going to be a temporary solution, said Wynand Wessels, project manager for Proxa South Africa.
âPhase one being an initial supply of 2ml (megalitres) a day â two million litres, and phase two, being a final supply of the seven million litres â the seven ML per day into the potable reticulation.â
According to Orano Miningâs managing director Tommie Gouws, EDP has the capacity to produce 20 million cubic metres of water per year, with the existing infra- structure allowing for expansion up to 25 million cubic metres and the potential to further expand to 45 million cubic metres.
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is looking into setting up water desalination plants at eight major ports along South Africaâs coastline.
These desalination plants, if developed, will form part of a water purchase agreement between TNPA and the selected service provider, while the land and water space would âcontinue to be owned and controlledâ by Transnet.
Mais, de plus en plus, des usines sont construites pour fournir de lâeau utilisĂ©e pour lâirrigation des plantations. Câest le cas de la station de dessalement de dessalement dâAgadir (au Maroc), actuellement en construction, avec une capacitĂ© attendue de 275â000 m3 par jour. Une partie de lâeau traitĂ©e, câest-Ă -dire 125â000 m3 par jour, alimentera un systĂšme dâirrigation dans la plaine de Chtouka, au centre-ouest du Maroc.
En Afrique du Sud, lâun des pays africains les plus touchĂ©s par les pĂ©nuries dâeau ces derniĂšres annĂ©es, Lucky Star, un fabricant de conserves de poissons sâest dotĂ© de deux usines de dessalement dâeau de mer privĂ©es [âŠ]
Umgeni Water says water supply in areas like Chatsworth, uMlazi and Northdene among others remains interrupted.
This is because of planned repairs for one of the high-pressure pipes supplying water to the Durban Heights water treatment plant.
Umgeni Waterâs Shami Harichunder says residents should expect reduced water pressure. He says complete water supply will be restored by Thursday.
âWe detected that one of these aqueducts has a leak in it, we detected in Reservoir hills, so uMgeni water has now shut down this aqueduct three repairs [âŠ]