Teaming up for Mandela to clean local wetland

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Molola Mosome, Leepile Motlagomang, Khethikwe Khomo and Rodney Siwelane, all from DWA. Seef Rademeyer from DWA, Andrew Tanner from Aurecon, and SANCOLD Secretary, Dr Paul Roberts. Last word More than 230 people attended this year’s conference of the South African National Committee on Large Dams (SANCOLD) held at Thaba‘Nchu, in the Free State, late last year. The theme for the 2013 event was ‘Technology for Water and Water Energy in Southern Africa’ . Commenting on the theme of the conference, SANCOLD Chair, Danie Badenhorst, said: “The sustainable development of renewable resources with environmental stewardship is of great importance in Africa as we seek to strengthen and maintain our critical water-supply infrastructure. In South Africa we have 3 500 dams with a height of more than 5 m that deliver a broad array of benefits, including water and power supply, flood risk management, water quality, recreation, sedimentation control and other benefits to the country’s citizens.

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