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Following two very successful conferences hosted at the CSIR Conference Centre in Pretoria in 2010 and 2011, the third Regional Young Water Professionals’ Conference is moving to the Western Cape to take place at Stellenbosch University next year and students have until 15 January to submit their papers. This event will take place from Tuesday, 16 to Thursday, 18 July [...]

 Stellenbosch University Dean of Science, microbiologist and inventor of the teabag water filter, Prof Eugene Cloete, is the only representative from Africa to be inducted into the new Fellows Programme of the International Water Association (IWA), which is the largest international association for water professionals. It recognises unusual and outstanding distinction in the water profession. [...]

The Water Research Commission (WRC) has honoured Prof Ed Jacobs of the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University with a Technical Excellence Award for developing innovative water purification technology that are commercially viable. The WRC’s inaugural Technical Excellence Awards were established to honour WRC funded technological inventions that have been commercialised to [...]

The motorcycle adventures of two former Matie students as part of an awareness campaign about water research in Southern Africa, can be followed on Facebook. The two – former Dagbreek resident Cobus Botes (31) and Huis Visser resident Altus Jacobs (29) -  leave on 6 April for four Southern African countries to create awareness about [...]