News from the South African water sector

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The Seventh International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling and the Fourth International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design will beheld conjunctively in Melbourne Australia. The joint conference is organised by the Institute for Sustainable Water Resources, Engineers Australia, the International Virtual Discussion List Sparks Interest in Water A new mailing list has been created to encourage debate among professionals regarding water engineering issues in South Africa and Africa. The mailing list, dubbed ZA_WATER_ENG can be used to ask questions, hold discussions or disseminate information that is important to the water engineering community. The list is open to all interested parties, including non-engineers, and is being supported by the Water Engineering Division of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering. Creator Prof Kobus van Zyl, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering Science at the University of Johannesburg, explains that e-mail discussion lists are ‘virtual communities’ of people who share a particular interest and use the list to communicate.

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