News from the corporate water sector

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Company news African consultants select female chair African consulting engineering association collective, the Group of Africa Member Associations (GAMA) has selected its first female Chairperson at a conference in Durban earlier this year. Madame Mayen Adetiba from the Association of Consulting Engineers Nigeria was elected as Chair of GAMA for 2009. She will be assisted by Arthur T aute, the newly-elected Deputy Chair from South Africa. Seen here with Adetiba is outgoing GAMA president Exaud Mushi and John Boyd, President of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) to which GAMA belongs. Namibia forges ahead with plans to mine the sea N amibian bulk water supplier NamWater is forging ahead with longstanding plans to establish a large-scale seawater desalination plant outside Swakopmund. This is despite the fact that the project has suffered long delays as a result of political and financial hurdles. Water demand in Namibia’s Erongo Region is set to rise sharply as a result of new and expanding uranium mining operations in the area.

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