Water, Sewage & Effluent May-June 2018 | Page 33

Chris Braybrooke, Veolia About Veolia Veolia Water Technologies South Africa helps industries and municipalities provide drinking water, deal with wastewater, and work towards zero liquid discharge, with a focus on low-footprint, high- efficiency water treatment solutions. It targets the complete water treatment cycle, with over 350 proprietary technologies covering everything from pre- treatment to sludge treatment and water reuse. “‘Sludge’ is not the undesirable and sometimes downright hazardous burden municipalities and industries used to view it as.” water reuse is essential to the success of these schemes, and we should look to the educational initiatives of our neighbours to the north at Goerengab in successfully effecting a cultural shift to how people viewed drinking recycled water in that country. We also need t