by Lichen Group | Feb 22, 2019 | Environmental, Water Crisis, Water Recycling
by Acqua Dall ‘Aria The National Water and Sanitation Master Plan is sombre reading. Vast stretches of the Northern, Eastern and Western Cape are still experiencing severe drought conditions. The taps are drying up. Eskom’s debt mountain – R419 billion...
by Dave Marock | Aug 1, 2018 | Environmental, General
A group of Russian scientists have successfully revived two species of tiny worms that they discovered suspended in an icy chunk of Siberian permafrost. The worms, known as nematodes or more commonly as roundworms, had been frozen for up to 42,000 years, since a time...
by Dave Marock | Jun 1, 2018 | Environmental
History The evolution of NEWater has spanned over a period of three decades although it may sound like an overnight success for Singapore. How It Started Singapore’s first water masterplan was drawn up in 1972. In 1974, PUB built a pilot plant, which was a...
by Dave Marock | Mar 9, 2018 | Citrus Farming, Environmental, General, Organic Gardening
In 2005 when citrus greening was discovered in orange trees in south Florida, the insidious little carrier bug, the Asian citrus psyllid, was already making its way through the state infecting and killing thousands of acres (127,000+) of citrus trees. Growers,...
by Dave Marock | Mar 9, 2018 | Environmental, General
SOUTH Africa’s stocks and currency inched up yesterday, cheering the stronger than ex‐ pected gross domestic product (GDP), which recorded the strongest expansion since the first quarter of 2015 in the past quarter. Statistics SA said the economy advanced an...
by Dave Marock | Mar 1, 2018 | Berry Farming, Environmental, General
In the summer of 2015, Pedro Torres Plaza founded Horticultorres S. de R.L. de C.V., a new company active in the field providing horticultural supplies and consulting to the Mexican greenhouse industry. Before the start of Horticultorres, Torres, an entrepreneur,...
