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BLOEM WATER CONNECT

Mr Nkwinti is currently serving as the Minister of Wa-

ter and Sanitation, having previously served as the Minis-

ter of Rural Development and Land Reform. He was

born on 18 December 1948. He holds a Masters degree in

Public Policy and Management from the University of

London and a Bachelor of Administration degree special-

ising in Political Science, Public Administration and Ap-

plied Economics from the University of South Africa.

Prior to his appointment as a Minister he was Speaker of

the EC Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 1999.

Easter rains bring much needed relief 03 April 2018 There has been a significant

improvement recently in the rainfall that has led to the overflow of several dams

across South Africa over the past two weeks, a weekly report by the Department

of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has indicated. The rain was soft but intense,

enough to soak the soil and replenish groundwater for basic use. Improvements

in the past two weeks have been noticed in most provinces, namely Gauteng,

Mpumalanga, Free State, North West and KwaZulu-Natal.

The report shows that national average dam levels have increased significantly.

The Bloemfontein System with 4 dams serving mainly Mangaung increased by a

whopping 7% from 41,4% to 48,4%; during the same time last year it was at

49,2%. Welbedacht Dam is at 72,7%. Knellpoort Dam increased from 48,3% to

51,3%, Rustfontein Dam increased from 26,4% to 40,4%, Groothoek Dam expe-

rienced the biggest increase and is up from 37,9% to 53,5%.

Mr Gugile Nkwinti

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE MINISTER

Special points of interest:

Minister of Water and Sanitation

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Groothoek Water Treatment Works is situated at Maria Moroka near Black Mountain hotel in Thaba Nchu. It supplies water to the following areas:

Black Mountain Hotel

Woodbridge 1 & 2

Kommisiedrift

Ratau Area

Gladstone

Yoxford

Nature reserve

Groothoek houses/Security

Bloem Water began from October 2013 to reduce water abstraction from Groothoek Dam due to drought and this resulted in the decrease of water treatment and distribution from 12 Ml/d to an average of4Ml/d. The Dam had completely dried up and abstraction by any means was no longer pos-sible. Raw water pump was stopped in June 2015 after it started drawing-in mud and pushing that through the delivery pipe.

Underground water exploration was done in the affected areas and Bore-holes were drilled and equipped to mitigate the challenge, other affected areas were supplied via water tankers.

There has been consistent rainfall in the months of February, March and April 2018 which resulted in the Dam rising to 57% to date and Bloem Wa-ter took a de-

GROOTHOEK RE-OPERATIONALISATION

Chairperson T Pitsane

Team from Manguang Metro Municipality, Department Water and Sanitation and Bloem Water on the dam wall

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The IWA Water Loss Specialist Group, together with City Of Cape Town, will host the biennial Water Loss Conference and Exhibit from 7 to 9 May 2018 at the Century City Conference Centre and Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Water Loss Conference and Exhibition 2018 will be one of the world’s largest water loss conferences and is expected to attract over 500 participants from more than 50 countries.

Many of the world’s leading experts in the field of Non Revenue Water Management will be present and will discuss the latest developments, strategies, techniques and applications of inter-national best practices as well as successful case studies. In addition they will present a 1-day pre-conference workshop on 6 May 2018 to provide an introduction to the issue of Non Rev-enue Water Management and an overview of the latest IWA Methodology for reducing water losses from Municipal water supply systems.

Minister of Water and Sanitation Mr Gugile Nkwinti and Bloem Water Chief Executive Dr L Moorosi

Household:

Fix leaky taps – even a slow drip can waste 30 litres a day

Only use your dishwasher when its full and stop it before the drying cycle so it can air dry

If you fill two sinks; one with soapy water and one with warm water for rinsing, this will use less water than a dishwasher

Wash your clothes in cold water to save water and energy

Sweep away leaves and debris rather than using a hose to spray them away

Minimise how often you wash your car

Put buckets in the shower for runoff water and under drains to catch water dur-ing rain for your garden

Plant a water-wise garden with indigenous drought-resistant plants

Water your garden after 6pm

Use a watering can to make sure the water goes where it’s needed

Hewlett-Packard Company

WATER SAVING TIPS

Cyber Security Cyber security or information technolo-gy security are the techniques of pro-tecting computers, networks, programs and data from unauthorized access or attacks that are aimed for exploitation. Are we protected as Bloem Water ? IT is determined to protect Bloem Waters data integrity , confidentiality and avail-ability but we cannot do this alone . We need you a the users to assist by following these simple guidelines :

Do not share your passwords. Remember : You are accountable of all activities relating to your account!!!

Beef up your passwords. Do not use weak easy to guess passwords. Do not open suspicious emails from unknown senders. This is the easiest way of hackers to hack any network . Do not open any suspicious links on emails or the internet. DO NOT SHARE your personal information on

the internet/email , hackers use this in-formation to hack you! Lock all your devices when they are unattended .

New System !!! IT Service Desk (Action Request

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The new Service Desk is made for us-ers ; it’s made to effectively manage all service rendered to users by IT. The benefits to the business is that IT will together with business have de-fined resolution and response times for all requests logged for IT. These will range from 30 minutes to 8 hours depending on the impact , priority and urgency of the request.

Now users will know when their call should be resolved and whether IT has violated the agreed service levels. Last but not least ; IT will be able to track and record user feedback and measure satisfaction levels by rolling out user surveys at predefined inter-vals.

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RUSTFONTEIN DAM

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Groothoek Dam

Groothoek Dam

GROOTHOEK DAM

The Groothoek dam supplies to Groothoek TW and has a design capacity of 11.9x10.

It supplies water to the villages of south of Thaba Nchu, the system acts as an augmentation

scheme for the Rustfontein was supply system.

Rustfontein dam supplies water to the Rustfontein WTW and has a design capacity of

71.210 x10m.

The Rustfontein Dam received bulk of its water from the Knellpoort/Novo transfer

scheme.

BLOEM WATER CONNECT

The dam is located along the Caledon River and supplies water to the Welbedacht WTW. The

dam, since its construction in 1973, has lost approxiametly 95% of its storage capacity due silta-

tion. Water has been released from the Katse system to augment the GBSA since the 15/07/2014

Rustfontein Dam

Rustfontein Dam

WELBEDACHT DAM

Welbedacht Dam

Welbedacht Dam

T Khaeane : Manager Supply Chain

The year started off on a high note for the Mentor-ship Programme as we continued to gain more traction. We kicked off in January with the first ev-er Men’s Impact Session in Rustfontein then con-tinued to other Regions in February and March. The men had a great time where they had the oppor-tunity to just be them-selves with no Ladies around and talk about whatever was on their minds without any inhibi-

tions! An exciting partnership is brewing between Bloem Water and Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) which will see us participating in a joint event with COMENSA in April. Al-so in April we will be having training for our current Mentors and Mentees. The first year of Men-torship will be drawing to a close in May so if

you did not have an op-portunity to be with the current group of Mentos and Mentees, you will have the opportunity in May/June.

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Mentors at COMENSA workshop

TRAINING & DEVELOPMETRAINING & DEVELOPMENTNT

Hewlett-Packard Company

TOTAL EMPLOYEES TRAINED IN Q3 – (109)

Submission of Annual Training Plan to EWSETA Annual Training Plan for 2018/2019 was successfully submit-ted to EWSETA on the 30th April 2018

Current Training Projects Most of the current training projects are running smoothly and some are approaching completion.

PROGRAMMES EMPLOYEE

Instrumentation 2

Trade Test 19

Instrument Mechanician 12

IR Training 1

SAGE HR 11

Welding 8

Carpentry/Bricklaying/Plumbing 30

Matric 10

NQF Level 4 (Water & waste water) 9

Senior Diploma in Law 1

Technical Management 1

Transportation of Dangerous Goods 4

Environmental Management 1

TOTAL : 13 PROGRAMMES 99 employee

The rational behind this initiative is to make the society aware of the existence of

Bloem Water and its mandate to serve the community, hence Bloem Water

deploy its personnel to the event in order to give educational awareness to teach the

community as how to save water and inform all the Stakeholders how to participate in

water sector. The Core function of the Process Controllers

Dr Ntili visiting the Bloem Water Stall with C Mo-gorosi and T Nhlapo

Bloem Water Stall

Bloem Water stall achieved silver

Certificate of achievement

Zone 6 Sports

Plant tour

The Zone 06 Water Utilities consists of the following utilities locally and international which annually meet for a wellness event with the intention to establish and enhance partnerships to improve water service delivery: • Bloem Water-South Africa • Lepelle Northern Water-South Africa • WASCO-Lesotho • Botswana Water Utility • Swaziland Water Utility. The event is held during Easter and the hosting water utility rotated among them. The focus of the event is to engage the employees in wellness activities as part of Psycho-Physical Wellness, to network, benchmark and enhance existing twinning partnerships with the opportunity to establish new ones.

netball

Gala dinner

Gala Dinner

Collecting and Using Rainwa-ter at Home

Rainwater harvesting — collecting and storing rain for later use — is an ancient practice. It is still used in many rural places throughout the world, and today it is making a comeback in ur-ban centres as an additional source of water.

At its simplest, rainwater harvesting consists of a rain barrel placed under the downspout of your home to collect rainwater for garden irrigation.

Larger, more sophisticated, systems can be incorporated into your home’s plumbing system to provide water for a variety of household needs, from toilet flushing to laundry, and even drink-ing water (in these instances the rainwater will be treated prior to use).

All rainwater harvesting systems, simple or complex, have the same basic components:

A catchment area to capture the rainfall — this is typically the roof of the house.

A conveyance system to move the water from the roof to a storage area — eavestroughs and downspouts, and maybe piping.

A storage system to hold the rainwater for future use — a barrel, a cistern or a tank.

A distribution system to get the water from storage to where it is being used — this can range from a watering can to full integration with the existing plumbing system in the house.

Rainwater harvesting is advantageous for a number of reasons:

It can offset the amount of municipally treated water you use in your home — helping to re-duce your water bill

Larger cisterns can help divert and retain runoff from your property — reducing the impact on local stormwater infrastructure and combined sewer systems

Stored rainwater can be used for landscape irrigation even during watering bans and helps to replenish groundwater supplies with water that would normally flow to stormwater systems

For those on well water, rainwater harvesting offers a way to reduce well pump en-ergy consumption and reduce the amount of water the well has to deliver — an im-portant consideration if your well is affected by dry spells or water table fluctua-tions.

Getting Started

When thinking about harvesting rainwater for your home, there are a number of questions to consider.

What would you like to use rainwater for?

Are you simply looking to harvest rainwater for outdoor watering purpose, or are you inter-ested in a system that provides water for indoor uses as well (e.g., toilets, laundry)? Or are you wondering about using rainwater on a seasonal basis for a variety of purposes at the cot-tage? Each scenario involves different set-up, equipment, maintenance and costs.

How much rainwater do you need?

Depending on what you wish to use your rainwater for, the amount you need will vary de-pending on:

Household water consumption habits — e.g., how often do you water outdoors and how much water is used, how many toilet flushes are there in a given period, how many loads of laundry?

The number of people in your household.

How much rainwater can you store?

Rainwater storage tanks are available in many sizes, from less than one hundred litres suitable for supplementary outdoor plant watering to thousands of litres for larger residential systems.

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