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Environmental Due Diligence Studies. Environmental Management and Assessment Consultants. GeoAfrica - earth science professionals (geologists, geophysicists, etc.) exploration and mining companies, associations and products in Africa, listed by category. Mining companies - exploration equipment, software, mining contractors and consultants. The entrepreneurial spark that defined ENVIRON's beginnings remains evident in each innovative, forward-thinking solution we deliver. Advances in science and tech...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
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Australia’s Murray River declared ‘critically endangered’ 135 years after first reported toxic algal bloom. George Francis documented the first case of animal poisonings from toxic blue-green algae back in 1878. Lake Alexandrina at the mouth of the Murray-Darling River (Source: Geoff Codd). Blue crabs affected by blue-green algae – and other stories. Women collecting mussels at low tide. Photo: Bill Harding. Read more ». Blue-green algae get the blame for simply being green. There have been two sets of p...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
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LIVING WITH EUTROPHICATION: A LUXURY SOUTH AFRICA CANNOT AFFORD. Unimpacted rivers and streams are increasingly threatened by the wastes of a growing population (Photo: Bill Harding). Read more ». DHEC is a registered and accredited member of these professional organizations:. Nutrient Enrichment Assessment Protocol. Follow us on Twitter.
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
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Corridors and buffers: Claudia Gray on riparian zones in Malaysia and across the world. River riparian zone in oil palm plantation, Sabah, Malaysia. Image: Claudia Gray.  is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Ecology and Conservation at the University of Sussex.  Working in collaboration with PREDICTS,.  her work uses the projectâ s global biodiversity database to investigate how landscape management can help biodiversity conservation. Photos of South African algal blooms and scums needed. If you ...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
http://blog.dhec.co.za/2014/06
Perfection is reality for 126 sewage treatment plants. Don’t you wish that this was the heading for an article about wastewater treatment in South Africa?  Wish again. It. Comes from the State of Washington in the US:. There were 126 wastewater treatment plants across the state with perfect performance in 2013, a jump from 107 the year before. There are approximately 330 wastewater treatment plants in Washington. When the award program began in 1995, only 14. Algae tests result in higher [water] bills.
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
http://blog.dhec.co.za/2015/04
Nutrient pollution can harm stream ecosystems in previously unknown ways. A North Carolina forest stream. Image: Jenn Deane Flickr Creative Commons. It has long been known that nutrient pollution.  â the overloading of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphates from sources such as agricultural fertilisers â can have potentially harmful effects on freshwater ecosystems. In particular, eutrophication. The Lourens River – an unprotected natural environment? A dog is not a ‘thing’.  A dog is not a thing...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
http://blog.dhec.co.za/2015/03
Greyton-Genadenal community policing act against animal abuse. But will someone adopt me and love me? To man’s own discredit we live in societies that do not afford any rights to animals – but the most loathsome human beings have every right imaginable. Despite this, my faith in my fellow-man was considerably elevated. Â We look forward to reports-back from her new Mom and Dad. Read more ». Hydrocitizenship: A passport to civil society awareness of water and aquatic ecosystems. 8220;The term ‘hydro...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
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Another South African dam joins the polluted list. Its green but you can drink it (? Conditions in a well-known South African dam. A report this week has added KwaZulu Natal’s well-known Midmar Dam. Â Read more ». Algal Toxins in Water Supplies: It won’t happen here… or… will it? A couple of posts ago I mentioned the incident in Toledo. Overlooking the Berg River Dam: nice from far but…. Litter is strewn around the viewing areas above the dam, weeds abound through the paving. Of course if there was a ret...
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Droplets: The blog of DH Environmental Consulting
http://blog.dhec.co.za/2013/11
Trans-Canada puts social license before economics. With apologies to Parker. The concept of companies seeking social approval (= Social License) for their activities, particularly those that impact on the natural environment, is something that should be an ethical pre-requisite of good business governance – this as opposed to the more common practice of wilfully ignoring the fundamental need to avoid, rather than try to mitigate, impacts. Flooding of the Somerset West Hospital not at all surprising.
