Mpumalanga Business 2017 edition
Mpumalanga Business 2017 is the seventh edition of this highly successful publication that has since its launch in 2008 established itself as the premier business and investment guide to Mpumalanga Province. Supported and utilised by the Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency (MEGA), Mpumalanga Business is unique as a business journal that focuses exclusively on Mpumalanga.
Mpumalanga Business 2017 is the seventh edition of this highly successful publication that has since its launch in 2008 established itself as the premier business and investment guide to Mpumalanga Province. Supported and utilised by the Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency (MEGA), Mpumalanga Business is unique as a business journal that focuses exclusively on Mpumalanga.
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Water<br />
The new De Hoop Dam is delivering water for bulk<br />
distribution in <strong>Mpumalanga</strong>.<br />
OVERVIEW<br />
SECTOR INSIGHT<br />
• Sasol has reduced water<br />
usage by 10%.<br />
• Sappi is raising the wall of<br />
the Comrie Dam.<br />
Four large rivers run through <strong>Mpumalanga</strong>: Usutu, Crocodile, the<br />
Sabie-Sand and the Komati, but most of them are stressed. The<br />
catchment areas are Olifants, Nkomazi, Usutu and Upper Vaal.<br />
The province’s biggest industries of forestry, mining, synfuel<br />
production and power generation are all thirsty activities. Old mines<br />
in particular present problems in that they can pollute groundwater.<br />
This means that <strong>Mpumalanga</strong> has to conserve its waters, build more<br />
dams and commission new water-treatment plants.<br />
Many municipalities in <strong>Mpumalanga</strong> have been struggling for some<br />
time to provide water for their citizens.<br />
The completion of the De Hoop Dam means that people living in<br />
municipalities can now expect bulk water delivery. The Trans Caledon<br />
Tunnel Authority (TCTA) is responsible for seeing that bulk water<br />
supplies are laid on, but making the local connections and actually<br />
delivering the water is up to municipalities and water boards.<br />
The Provincial Government of <strong>Mpumalanga</strong> has pledged significant<br />
resources to this end:<br />
• R2.7-billion in 2015/16 to municipalities for water and sanitation<br />
projects<br />
• 32 boreholes have been built to help during the drought, and in<br />
2016/17 a further 582 boreholes will be sunk<br />
• R91-million on the Lushushwane Bulk Water Supply in the Gert<br />
Sibande District Municipality<br />
• Waste-water treatment works to be refurbished in Emakhazeni<br />
Municipality (funding from<br />
national Department of Water<br />
and Sanitation)<br />
• Inyaka Water Treatment Works,<br />
the Acornhoek Bulk Water<br />
Pipeline, and water reticulation<br />
projects to 15 villages in the<br />
Bushbuckridge Municipality<br />
About 137-million litres of water<br />
is supplied on a daily basis to<br />
about 1.2-million people in the<br />
Bushbuckridge and Mbombela<br />
local municipalities by Rand<br />
Water. The company runs 11<br />
water-treatment plants, two river<br />
schemes and a sewage-treatment<br />
plant.<br />
Large schemes<br />
The De Hoop Dam is the centrepiece<br />
in the very large<br />
Olifants River Water Resource<br />
Development Project (ORWRDP),<br />
which will transform and control<br />
water usage for industrial,<br />
commercial and private users.<br />
As the catchment area for this<br />
huge scheme is to the north of<br />
<strong>Mpumalanga</strong>, the spinoff effect<br />
on the province is significant.<br />
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