South Africa’s worrying state of wastewater management requires urgent public-private partnerships to accelerate technology development to improve the current situation, says Dr Rembu Magoba, Manager of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Water Research Centre. Dr Magoba was...
CSIR and UCT launch accredited practical workshop
On 22 and 23 June 2022, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in collaboration with the University of Cape Town’s (UCTs) Occupational Medicine Division, hosted the first training workshop titled Health risk assessments in health facilities - a focus on ventilation assessment ...
CSIR joined the FOCUS-Africa workshop on climate services for food and water security
On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, the CSIR team joined the Full-Value chain Optimised Climate User-centric Services for Southern Africa (FOCUS-Africa) workshop on climate services for food and water security. The main objective of the three-day workshop, which took place in Pretoria, was to get a better...
CSIR releases its annual statistics on power generation in South Africa for 2021
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has released its annual statistics on power generation in South Africa for the year 2021. Highlights include the increased contribution of renewable energy technologies to the total energy mix, and loadshedding in 2021 overtaking 2020 as t...
CSIR’s Energy and Water Centre’s exhibit technologies at NCPC’s 5th Biennial Industrial Efficiency Conference
On Wednesday, 25 and Thursday, 26 May 2022, the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) hosted its Fifth Biennial Industrial Efficiency Conference at the CSIR International Convention Center (ICC) where the CSIR’s Energy and Water Centres exhibited their technologies. “As the NC...
CSIR continues to invest in research of low-cost wastewater treatment, but calls for additional funding to improve water supply
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) calls for more funding to be directed to water research and the development of technologies to improve South African municipalities’ wastewater treatment processes and maintenance, as well as build new treatment plants. The deteriorating q...
Groundbreaking research shows storms drive outgassing of CO2 in the subpolar Southern Ocean
New research that was published in an article in Nature Communications on 10 January 2022 has shown, through new high-resolution observations using ocean robotics, that the impact of storms on ocean mixing is critical to understanding the present and future of the Southern Ocean carbon dioxide (C...
Testing for niche waterborne pathogens
CSIR Microbiology and Parasitology Laboratory The CSIR Microbiology and Parasitology Laboratory has played a key role in the development of wastewater-based epidemiology disease tracking and monitoring approaches during the Covid-19 pandemic. This added to the laboratory’s reputation, acquired ov...