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The Water Wheel Volume 20 No 6

The Water Wheel

10 articles

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Articles in this issue

  1. COVID-19 AND WATER

    Tracking COVID-19 in sewers and in patients to help halt the pandemic

    Jorisna Bonthuys

    Page 10

  2. WATER AND POWER GENERATION

    Despite ageing infrastructure Eskom still on par with world water efficiency levels

    Page 14

  3. WATER AND FOOD

    Food security – It takes a village... and a whole lot more

    Sue Matthews

    Page 18

  4. FRESHWATER CONSERVATION

    Race on to save SA's unique eel species before they slip into extinction

    Jorisna Bonthuys

    Page 22

  5. IRRIGATION AND WATER QUALITY

    Drug resistant pathogens – Are we ingesting more than nutrients with our vegetables?

    Page 26

  6. Wastewater-based epidemiology is

    proving to be a valuable in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Page 30

  7. CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT

    Water pollution – Are farmers bearing the cost of poor catchment management?

    Page 34

  8. AQUACULTURE

    The future of aquaculture is now

    Page 38

  9. AT A GLANCE

    Maguga Dam – Giant of Swaziland

  10. WATER AND WETLANDS

    South Africa's swamp forests are very likely critically endangered wetland ecosystems