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Just how broken is Water Affairs?
7 May 2012.
After many months of warnings, there now appears to be a general agreement that South Africa faces a massive water crisis. No less a source than the Minister of Water Affairs (DWA) has acknowledged that something urgently needs to be … Continue reading →
Anderson Lake: Open and closed due to toxic algae
4 May 2012.
Anderson Lake (Port Townsend, Washington State, USA) was opened and closed for fishing within five days. Officials found worrying levels of blue-green algal nerve toxins known as anatoxins [Source: www.peninsuladailynews.com]. The results showed that Anderson Lake water contained 1.52 micrograms … Continue reading →
Why selective protests? Why not focus on real issues?
2 May 2012.
I have to wonder about what fuels certain protest actions and allows much greater and pernicious harm to go unchallenged? On the one hand, we have all the who-ha about the toll roads in Gauteng (by the way, here in … Continue reading →
Lake Texoma algal warning finally lifted! Others to get permanent warnings
2 May 2012.
After many, many months, the US Army Corps of Engineers (the guys that do a lot of lake monitoring in the US), have removed the toxic algae advisory for Lake Texoma. This advisory was in place for most of the … Continue reading →
Another Chinese lake threatened by eutrophication
30 April 2012.
The water quality in China’s Lake Tai is being impacted by agricultural fertilizers, this after a major effort to reduce chemical pollution in the country’s third largest lake. China’s progress towards becoming the world’s new economic powerhouse has not been … Continue reading →
DH Environmental Consulting is committed to providing its clients with solutions to aquatic ecosystem and water-related environmental problems through a dedicated process of assessment, education and planning, supported by one of the widest ranging and most experienced backgrounds in aquatic ecology available from a single source in South Africa.
DH Environmental focuses on achieving a balance between environmental and developmental needs such that workable and sustainable design elements are identified and integrated early in the planning or assessment phases.
Our skills and abilities are based on many years of proven experience, this reducing the amount of time that we need to spend on finding a solution for you. Typically we can go straight to the heart of the problem without incurring expensive and time-consuming exploratory work.
DH Environmental maintains a research focus in order to continually provide guidelines and methods for aquatic ecosystem assessment and management in South Africa and elsewhere.
