Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to join us today. I am Martin Madlala; and I am Managing Director of One Source Water, a member of the 1Source Group: a BEE entity focused on national infrastructure development; with experience in pairing local challenges to leading internally and locally sourced solutions.
It is my honour to welcome you here today to find out more about a revolutionary water treatment technology that we are introducing to South Africa.
Firstly, I would like to introduce the panel who will be assisting to explain what we are doing and how our proven technology will provide a cost effective solution for a wide range of water related problems in South Africa. D Hudson (COO 1 Source Water), B (Systems integration architect), Wayne Preece.
Essentially, our approach to water treatment can be summarised as TREAT ONCE; TREAT RIGHT. We are well aware that there are other water treatment technologies and processes being marketed in South Africa, but most of these require the addition of complex chemicals and re-treatment of water following the initial treatment process.
Our technology, which has been developed in Wales – whom we so narrowly beat in the Rugby World Cup the other day - is based on electro-coagulation. Through electro coagulation, contaminants are removed from water – such as ecoli, algae, manganese, arsenic and even radio-nuclides associated with nuclear plants.
Amongst the features that make our technology so attractive is that it is conducted through a mobile plant that is environmentally-friendly, energy efficient and software controlled. Importantly it is also scalable to match the specific instance of the challenge. As an illustration of our commitment to solving many of South Africa's water related problems, we and our Welsh partners have manufactured and have in country a demonstration plant flexible in design to illustrate effectiveness extracting contaminants found in AMD, potable water and sewage.
Importantly, the water technology solution we have brought to South Africa has already proved its worth throughout the UK and Europe with plants operating at over 30 sites. The bottom line is that South Africa is getting the benefit of a system that works and has an impressive track record on which it can be judged. Importantly it has been optimised to best account for our local water challenges and conditions; both environmental and infrastructural.
While Acid Mine Drainage is a real and material problem it remains but one of the vexing water problems faced in ensuring water security in South Africa. Our intervention maximises available water in a water scarce environment. Our plants, which are scalable and mobile, can also assist municipalities in the provision of potable water and tertiary polishing in urban and rural communities. An important potential use is in medical facilities to improve and ensure their access to clean, safe water, limiting the transmission of water borne diseases.
Instead of dosing water with environmentally-harmful substances, our process utilizes electro-coagulation. Electrocoagulation is the well-established science of applying an electric charge to water and its contaminants to affect a change, at an atomic level that results in contaminant particles sticking together and thus being easily removed. Electrocoagulation water treatment pre-dates many conventional physical, chemical and biological processes, but it is only now with recent advances in power control technology and the re-design of its reactor that this world leading technology can now be a low carbon technology process. These advances enable the efficient conversion of electrical energy into 'reactive' treatment reagents, which then are capable of treating a wide variety of contaminants.
In summary the One-Source-Water solutions are:
· Immediately deployable
· Scalable and adaptable to address the wide ranging national water priorities
· Very simple to operate and maintain
· Cost effective and efficient
· Able to remove all manner of contaminants found in water
Because of this, One-Source-Water can provide:
· Potable water solutions – this is especially valuable in rural settings when the treatment plant can be taken directly to the people who need it without the building of hugely expensive infrastructure
· Sewerage solutions – tertiary polishing of effluent can enable existing treatment plants to operate above their design capacity and improve the quality of their output- blue drop status
· AMD solutions – through the removal of all metals, without the long term damage caused by the traditional treatment regime
· Agricultural solutions – by treating river water to enable safe crop and hydroponic irrigation
Our belief is that we have a robust and very real solution for many of South Africa's most pressing water needs, a technology that is fit for purpose and condition.
Once again, many thanks for coming and for showing such an interest in what we have to offer to the people of South Africa.
Thank you.
Issued on behalf of 1Source Group by : Jenni Newman Public Relations
Issued by : Jenni Newman Public Relations (Pty) Ltd
Khensani Mthombeni
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