News from the South African water sector 2003

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The Joint Acceptance Scheme for Water Services Installation Components (JASWIC), has moved their lists of accepted water and sanitation components from the Water Research Commission’s server to a new web address at JASWIC, an interest group whose committee functions to the mutual benefit of its members and the community at large, aims to assist the SABS in the setting and maintaining of national standards for water supply and sanitation by maintaining a schedule of acceptable water services installation components for use by water service authorities, water service providers and consumers. JASWIC also develops training curricula and standards and is involved in information exchange. Please visit JASWIC at The discovery of the septic tank is generally credited to a Frenchman, John Louis Mouras, who during the 1860s, constructed a masonry tank into which sewage, kitchen wastes and rainwater from a small dwelling in Vesoul, France, were collected before passing into a cesspool. Twelve years later the tank was opened and found, contrary to expectation, to be almost free of solids.

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