Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

Environmentally sound water treatment for organic solvents

Wits researchers have developed a water treatment plant which removes organic pollutants from municipal bulk water. The process is environmentally friendly, making use of sunlight to purify water, thus saving energy and eliminating the need to use chemicals. Its modular design allows for scaling...

Microbially Produced Bio-Surfactants

Surfactants are amphipathic molecules with both hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties that partition preferentially at the interface between fluid phases such as oil/water or air/water interfaces. Such characteristics confer excellent detergency, emulsifying, foaming, and dispersing traits, which...

Leak Characterisation for Pipelines in a Closed Water Distribution Network

Background

Leak detection and management is an important topic in the management of water distribution systems. Various instruments and measurement techniques have been developed to identify the occurrences and locations of new leaks in large distribution systems and networks.

UCT researchers...

Pipe Condition Assessment System

Background

Globally, freshwater is a precious resource that needs to be managed properly. Considerable amounts of freshwater supplied via bulk distribution systems are lost through leakages in poorly maintained water network infrastructure. Utilities, network operators, and other relevant...

WRC – TIA Water Seed Fund Call for Innovations addressing South Africa’s Water Challenges

The funding is provided to support projects run by HEIs and SMEs that seek to commercialise IP aligned to addressing South Africa’s water challenges. Proposals will be reviewed by a Steering Committee with representatives from the WRC, TIA, and industry stakeholders.

Key funding parameters:

Funding instrument - Conditional Grant
Limit - Up to R 200 000
Focus area - Water Technologies
Funding period - Maximum 12 - 18 months

Closing date

Friday, January 29, 2021 - 12:00

SA Plastics Pact | Reuse Innovation Challenge 2021

Competition entrants should submit their proposed designs of reusable packaging items and/or systems that would replace single-use packaging items at a B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to consumer) facing level. Designs should include the systems and mechanisms which would be used to complete the packaging reuse cycle.

The proposed innovations are not limited to physical products, but could also be systems or models for the reuse cycling of packaging items.

Closing date

Monday, February 1, 2021 - 12:00

TIA Seda Webinar Series - "Enabling Improved Access to Incubation Ecosystem Support Services During COVID 19 and Post-Pandemic Towards Economic Recovery and Sustainable Business Modeling"

The Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) and Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have organised a series of webinars on various support programmes available to start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs at TIA.

Webinars