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Blog: Disaster Relief – How do you supply clean water to cut-off communities?
Just over a week ago, up to a million Americans were without drinking water, four weeks after Hurricane Maria ripped through parts of the country. Many residents in Puerto Rico were still without basic supplies a month after the horrific storm hit. Initially bottled...
Aqua21 shortlisted for breakthrough green technology award
Aqua21’s point-of-use water treatment system has been shortlisted for Breakthrough of the Year in the BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2017.
Blog: Chlorine rinsed chickens – is there a better way?
Ensuring the food we eat is safe and fit for purpose is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. The rapid growth of populations and demand for meat means chickens are being intensively reared and the most recent ‘food scare’ was the revelation that chlorine-rinsed...
Blog: Ebola and epidemics – vaccines are one part of the solution, what are the others?
There has been a lot in the news recently about epidemics – why did Ebola get out of control so fast? Will we suffer a world-wide flu epidemic and what about emerging problems like MERS and Lassa Fever? At the start of this year an organisation was launched to lead...
Blog: Why are cities running out of water?
The City of Cape Town anticipates that its supply of municipal water will run out around March 2018, Mayor Patricia de Lille said last week. “If consumption is not reduced to the required levels of 500 million litres of collective use per day, we are looking at about...