2022
When we stop, breathe and take a moment to enjoy OUR RIVERS and the environment we walk, run, cycle or push along, we start to see how we are all connected through our rivers, water and nature.
When we help and Volunteer our time to cleanUP these natural areas from OUR Human Impact then we not only beautify and restore the balance to nature but we allow everyone downstream to benefit too so it's a selfless act.
Get involved in Local Community CleanUPs, it's very fulfilling and the collective Consciousness is waking up as there are regular CleanUP's that make a SMALL impact on OUR ENVIRONMENT.
TOGETHER WE MAKE massive small impact. #TreatAtTheSource #FreshandCleanStreets = #FreshandCleanRivers = #Cleanerseas #BeatPlasticPollution #RiverMithi
#CircularEconomy #GlobalGoals #Goal6 #UbuntuFlow
What a privilege to be featured in this month's Simply Green Magazine - Waste Edition.
Written by Kyle Odgers from KleenHealth South Africa, saving fresh clean water, shifting behavior Page 42
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"CONCERNED about how polluted
our rivers and other waterways are,
Kleenhealth, where I’m a director, came up with a solution for wastewater management using nanotechnology to reduce the amount of fresh, clean water used for sanitation – mostly flushing toilets.
People use toxic, harmful chemicals and “blue blocks” to counteract the strong urine smells from toilets and urinals but these just mask the foul odours and they pollute waterways. And switching off the water that helps flush away the smells only amplifies them.
When Camps Bay High School in
Cape Town decided to save water by turning off the water in their urinals before the 2010 Soccer World Cup, we jumped at the opportunity to help solve the toilet odour problem and put our technology to the test since 2017.
Victor Van Heerden, the estate manager
at Camps Bay High School, tried a new model.
By utilising #nanotechnology, we developed long-lasting anti-bacterial sprays to target and breakdown urine crystals thus treating two major ongoing problems –
hygiene and horrible smells.
The toxic chemicals used to mask odours are potentially to blame for pollution in our rivers and so treating the toilets with KleenUP CREW- WATER, SANITATION & UPliftment Campaign
natural, harmless microbes helps reduce harmful chemicals in sewage waste.
Helping to naturally break down the waste reduces the huge volumes of non-compliant wastewater circulating through our wastewater treatment plants, polluting river water which flows into our oceans.
The poster in Camps Bay High’s boys’ toilets, aimed at educating the children, sums it up beautifully by saying,
“Hello, I’m a waterless urinal. You and I could together save up to 44000 litres of water a year, now that I am waterless, but, I need your help.
Please use the spray bottle provided to give three or four sprays of a wonderful product that kills germs and will help me smell (and feel) fresh all day.
Thank you for your contribution in helping us make this building more green and leaving our toilet in a clean state.”
This simple and effective initiative saves water, reduces the volume of wastewater in the grid and takes the pressure off our overloaded sewer network and congested pump stations.
This action of turning off the water to the urinals empowers the children daily in a small, but compounding, way. Each time the urinal isn’t flushed it saves many litres for when it actually does need to be flushed for solid waste.
At the end of the school term, each child has individually saved many hundreds of litres of fresh, clean water not used for a daily liquid-waste flushes.
UBUNTU FLOW DANCE – River education video
Helping to heal our rivers and shift behaviour to protect our environment.
https://youtu.be/yZI6jR43haE
#CircularEconomy #ClimateAction
https://issuu.com/independentnewspapers/docs/simplygreen_july2021?fr=sZjI3YTM5MDcwMDc
River Image source: Prof Chris Curtis¹ UJ University of Johannesburg. Public Lecture Water (in) security in Gauteng's rivers and Wetlands 2021. Alli Carol¹ UJ.
