VEOLIA WATER TECHNOLOGIES SOUTH AFRICA

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Shaping and implementing practical models for water supply delivery

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Veolia Water Technologies South Africa has more international experience than most in the realm of water optimisation and is leveraging its unrivalled sector knowledge to strive for enhanced wastewater management in the future Writer: Matthew Staff | Project Manager: Donovan Smith

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ith South Africa rapidly running out of conventional water sources, alternative water resources are becoming more critical. There is a strong argument for reusing treated wastewater for potable, agricultural and industrial usage. And for coastal towns and cities, desalination plants are seen as an increasingly attractive solution to meet immediate and drought contingency demand.

A company meeting these requirements on the continent is Veolia Water Technologies South Africa (Veolia South Africa), a water solutions expert providing customised water and wastewater treatment solutions for municipalities and industries alike.

Working across a range of industries including automotive, food & beverage, mining, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation, pulp and paper, and steel, the South African arm of the globally renowned operator has full engineering, project management and production capabilities, driven from its head office and production facilities in Johannesburg and its regional offices in Durban and Cape Town.

Complementing international sites in Botswana and Namibia affirm Veolia’s wider Southern African influence and contribute to the overall Group’s five continent and 88 country influence on waste, water and energy domains.

“As part of Veolia Water Technologies, Veolia South Africa draws on vast international expertise to deliver a full scope of water treatment activities, with over 350 proprietary technologies as part of its treatment portfolio,” explains Chris Braybrooke, General Manager - Business Development, Veolia South Africa. “The Company is comprised of four divisions, each addressing various aspects of the market: Design and Build, Engineered Systems, Operations & Maintenance and Services Divisions.”

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A multi-pronged approach

Water security has become one of the most pressing issues for governments worldwide, with arid countries like South Africa rapidly approaching a crisis point. Potable and sanitation requirements are essential, and need to be balanced with the requirements of industry to spur continued economic growth.

“We need a multi-pronged approach to address these issues in parallel and develop the optimum life cycle costing models to meet immediate, medium and longer-term priorities,” says Braybrooke. “There is limited scope for

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the construction of new dams, and our rivers are already over-stressed and frequently polluted. Overly polluted water sources are much more costly to treat, and it is not economically viable to treat a considerable volume of our water for this reason.

“The natural progression would be a shift to wastewater reuse as one of the practical measures. The treatment of acid mine drainage water in Gauteng, in which Veolia was a key contributor, is a truly innovative example of wastewater management that can reduce freshwater consumption of both consumers and industry.

Our Solutions Veolia South Africa’s solutions include potable/drinking water production; domestic wastewater/sewage treatment; seawater desalination; industrial process water treatment and reuse; zero liquid discharge of industrial waste; modular water and wastewater treatment plants; mobile treatment plants; and mine water solutions, including acid mine drainage.

“We help Africa’s municipalities provide water solutions for both urban and rural areas,” Braybrooke continues. “We supply water treatment solutions for drinking water, sewage and wastewater, re-use, sludge treatment and incineration. In so doing, we’re helping municipalities address and overcome scarce water resources and health and sanitation concerns, all the while meeting stringent environmental regulations.”

“We cover the complete range of water treatment needs for industries, from supplying potable water and wastewater treatment in remote mining camps, to helping industry achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD).”

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ENERGY METALS & ENERGY VALVES A partnership built on a shared vision of a sustainable future Energy Metals & Energy Valves are proud to have been selected as supply partners to Veolia. We share Veolia’s vision for creating a sustainable future for our planet and the need to protect our planet’s resources while helping to improve everyone’s access to our natural resources.

In Africa, there is no resource more valuable than water and Energy Metals provides the piping materials used to construct all types of water treatment plants. Our focus on materials that resist corrosion, such as stainless steels, duplex alloys, and high nickel alloys means that we are able to assist in the most demanding of applications, like desalination.

Together with pipe, flanges, and fittings, Energy Valves has developed a reputation for supplying a wide variety of high-quality valves for water applications, including triple and double off-set butterfly valves, check valves, gate valves, and ball valves. We believe it is our technical understanding of our materials that gives us a valuable edge in offering experience, expertise and excellence. Our ability to supply a wide range of valve types and construction materials is a valuable strength which has helped develop and grow our business with Veolia and the water industry in general.

We are proud of our African roots, and our ability to serve our customers no matter where they may be operating in Africa.

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N Kirk’s extensive client base includes but is not limited to Municipalities, health boards, consultants, industries, environmentalists, contractors and private individuals.

Collected or delivered samples on an “As Received” basis are analysed and reported with any non-compliant results against current relevant legislation for the sample matrices.

The laboratory participates in national and international Proficiency Testing Schemes. This provides confidence in laboratory operations and ensures continual improvement in test methodologies.

The entire process is anticipated to be completed in the shortest possible turnaround time, without compromising the quality, accuracy or sample integrity.

www.bnkirk.co.za “Then there’s desalination, which is widely adopted globally and gaining renewed traction in South Africa, where Veolia has commissioned seven plants to date; including the country’s largest, Mossel Bay. This plant supplies 10 megalitres of potable water to the municipality and five megalitres of process water to PetroSA.” Desalination is traditionally a coastal option, but inland brackish water systems and brine streams can also be treated using Veolia technologies.

The standard desalination methodology in Africa is membrane separation via reverse osmosis, which is usually the least-costly approach and ideal for countries with limited energy resources (the other end of the scale is thermal water desalination, which relies on advanced distillation processes). Consequently, a number of the major South African metros are now looking at mega plants, ranging upwards from 150 megalitres.

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The Mossel Bay desalination plant – South Africa’s largest seawater desalination plant. Veolia Water Technologies designed, built and installed a 15 megalitre per day seawater desalination plant in Mossel Bay, with water supplied via an open sea water intake. Desalinated water is stored in two tanks – five megalitres per day for Petro SA industrial use, and 10 megalitres per day, which is chemically treated to kill bacteria and balance ph for municipal use

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rawing on 34 years of experience, Container World boasts a footprint across diversified sectors, from East and West Africa, down into Southern Africa.

Our company supplies full turnkey containerised solutions in remote areas, even with extremely tight deadlines and complicated requirements.

Container World supplies Veolia Water Technologies with new and preowned converted containers to house their water treatment plants. We also supply and service mining, construction, and oil and gas companies, which include ENI, in Mozambique, and petrochemicals giant Sasol, as well as Barrick Gold, Rand God and DeBeers Consolidated Mines.

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BN Kirk (Natal) CC is an ISO 17025:2005 SANAS accredited laboratory, operating under the strict conditions of the SANAS/ILAC MRA bodies.

By continually improving our technology and retaining skilled analysts, our dedicated team works to ensure that the results the Company generates are of the highest quality & accuracy, as required by these International Standards.

Our extensive laboratories offer all-encompassing, Bacteriological, Wet-chemistry, ICP-OES and GC-MS analysis.

Our company is proud to have been associated with the testing of various water matrices for Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies in Durban, South Africa since 2009. tel: +27 031 205 1245 | fax: +27 031 205 6904 | address: 45 Eaton Road, Kwakhangela, Durban | P.O. Box 30140, Mayville, 4058

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now believed to be the leader in desalination where, each day, approximately 6.75 million cubic metres is produced via its plants around the world.

“Desalination implementation is a long-term execution process, since the environmental impact assessment process alone is a lengthy one to ensure that sensitive coastal ecosystems are protected,” Braybrooke continues. “Then one has to consider energy supply demands, which tend to be intensive, but do come down on larger plants due to new technologies.

Highly skilled specialists are also required to run and maintain these plants. “

Proven solutions

A world leader across all aforementioned areas, Veolia, a French multinational organisation, has a lineage dating back to 1853, and today its core business segments comprise water, waste and energy, managing services solutions for public utilities and private sector clients of which the industrial segment forms a core component. The Company’s vision

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and leadership is helping to shape and implement practical models for supply delivery.

Francophone countries in Africa are managed by Veolia’s Marseilles office in France, with the balance of the sub-Saharan continent falling under the Johannesburg regional head office, which has a design and build mandate.

Within Gauteng, the Company has a manufacturing facility in Sebenza and a chemical blending plant in Isando supporting the African region, forming part of the Company’s total solutions offering. Other South African centres are supported by offices in Cape Town and Durban. The total southern African workforce now numbers around 700 personnel.

“Be they conventional or more specialised, we have proven solutions for treating any water source to a potable grade,” says Braybrooke. “It’s important to emphasise that each solution we offer is ‘fit for purpose’.

“Veolia South Africa’s services measure and improve environmental and economic performance and we implement energy-efficient water treatment strategies.”

Aims and objectives “Our mission is to supply holistic, innovative water and wastewater treatment solutions that benefit both the customer and the environment.”

• We measure and enhance environmental and economic performance

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INDUSTRIAL SCREENING TECHNOLOGY

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ndustrial Screening Technology has been a prime supplier of waste water treatment equipment for liquids/solids separation in municipal, industrial, agricultural, food process, marine, mining, paper-and sugar industries for the past 30 years in partnership with companies such as Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies.

We specialise in suspended solids screening, settle-able solids separation, dewatering of screened solids from effluent streams and process flows, and provide specialized equipment for coarse screening, fine screening, compaction, grit separation, sludge dewatering and conveyors in municipal waste water treatment plants.

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etaPro offers process engineering advice on the design of manufacturing processes and factory layouts as well as the design and manufacturing of a range of products aimed at the food and beverage industries. These products include various CiP, mixing, dissolving and blending skids.

Working alongside valued clients such as Veolia Water Solutions Technologies, MetaPro, MetaPipe and MetaNox offer a full range of services from process engineering, design and manufacture to on-site installation, specialised welding and project management along with specialised material supply.

• We help turn wastewater into a resource • We implement energy-efficient water treatment strategies

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Specializing in waste water treatment for over 30 years • Screening • Degritting • Dewatering www.screening.co.za

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Next level production solutions “Adding value to your business by providing complete production solutions from small upgrades to large turnkey projects” Process engineering & factory design, Project management, 3D Draughting.

Skid manufacture, Site installation, Site management, specialised welding services including orbital welding.

Supplier of 11850 series 2 certified pipe and fittings for use in pharmaceutical & food & beverage applications.

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acuum and Fluid Technology is actively involved in the supply of specialised equipment for water, waste and industry.

Our expertise includes vacuum systems, piping and structural equipment, screening systems and water control equipment. We recently introduced our new range of sluice gates to the market, combining conventional materials with new technology.

Veolia’s flagship municipal wastewater treatment plant in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal reclaims water at a rate of 47.5 megalitres per day, reducing the amount of municipal wastewater discharged into the environment. Domestic and industrial sewage and municipal wastewater is treated to near potable standards for use in industrial processes by high volume industrial customers

As part of a continuous improvement program, we operate using fully integrated systems, including automated planning, enabling us to offer accurate project completion.

Proud to be associated with Veolia Water, we wish them the best for their future endeavours.

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Quality assurance Veolia Water Technologies South Africa is SABS ISO 9001:2008 compliant and all items manufactured by the Company or subcontractors are inspected in accordance with approved Quality Control Plans (QCP)

A race against time

The question in South Africa remains: Where is the starting point for water security management?

“The fundamental objective should be to firstly manage available resources in terms of optimum operations, maintenance and supply, where Government has publicly expressed concern for the way this is currently executed and is calling for

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interventions,” Managing Director for Veolia South Africa, Gunter Rencken, answers. “It starts with addressing water losses in older and failing infrastructure, but for most South African metros it’s a race against time, so in addition to this, other sustainable measures must also be adopted. We need to consider that urbanisation trends reveal a major migration away from rural areas. How are we going to

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manage this demand?”

A classic example by way of response is the reuse debate.

Commissioned in May, 2001, the Durban Recycling Water Works is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concession business, purpose-designed

by Veolia to re-treat wastewater for industrial use. Since its commissioning, Veolia has been providing operations and maintenance services to the plant

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Social responsibility Intertwined with its search for more sustainable water solutions in South Africa is the Company’s equally dedicated approach to wider corporate social responsibility; ensuring that its influence reaches as many corners of the region as possible, and not just through cleaner water and better sanitation systems.

Braybrooke adds: “Veolia Water Technologies South Africa regularly identifies and executes social-upliftment and development projects in the communities affected by industrial and municipal projects the Company is involved with. In addition to these projects, Company employees frequently participate in fundraising activities and environmental activities, living the Company principles of “Resourcing the World” in their personal capacity as well.”

“Veolia is committed to supporting and developing the communities in which we operate,” Braybrooke continues. “On a broader level, the Company is active in promoting the effective participation of previously disadvantaged individuals and communities in the South African economy.”

Five core areas of focus in achieving this aim surround affirmative procurement; Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE), in which it is a Level 5 contributor; skills development; employment equity and black management control; black business partners; and social investment.

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Acknowledging our partners Veolia South Africa acknowledges the support of its strategic partners and suppliers, together with whom we have been able to deliver some of the region’s most important water / wastewater management projects.

We have built excellent business partnerships with the following companies on various projects: • Pace Valves: supplier of valves for our industrial and biological projects • Synergy Worldwide Logistics: storage of equipment for two large projects conducted in RSA • Madi A Mvula Hydrocare: our strategic partner in the Limpopo region participating in site-related work (mechanical erection and civil works) on potable treatment plants • Energy Engineered Products: supplier of various stainless steel valves on industrial projects • Vacuum & Fluid Technology: supplier of mechanical screens for a raw water abstraction plant & mechanical installation on a biological treatment plant • BN Kirk: supplier of laboratory services to our Durban Recycling Works plant • Container World: our container supplier used for our very popular containerised water treatment plants • Metapro: supports our Paarl Solutions division in Cape Town on piping and mechanical erection

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Zero Liquid Discharge: Ambatovy Mine, Madagascar. With a feed capacity of 135m3 / hour producing up to 200,000 tonnes of ammonium sulphate per annum for soil fertiliser, this is the largest crystallisation and evaporation project in Africa, and one of the largest in the world

for over 13 years. This facility meets dedicated demand for a petrochemical plant and pulp-paper manufacturer, which saves on the overall costs for municipal infrastructure.

Braybrooke explains: “Upgrading this process water to a drinking water standard is such a small step that this would be the logical progression.

However, there is public resistance to the thought of wastewater reuse. Our opinion is that Government needs to be more proactive in communicating the safe advantages of reuse.”

Turning wastewater into a resource

Across the board, Veolia South Africa focuses on offering a design, build, and operate model; skills transfer being a core component. In the larger ambit, Veolia is a leading implementer of the

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PPP model globally.

Given South African Government buy-in, Veolia believes PPPs have real merit as a mechanism for driving SA Treasury and international funding.

However, PPPs remain few and far between at this stage locally and are not the solution or a substitute for ineffective utilities management.

Rencken concludes: “Veolia South Africa brings the key advantage of technical advice and assistance, helping authorities to optimise and use current resources to the maximum.

That’s before you start investing in new infrastructure.

“It’s all about long-term planning, at least 30 years ahead, taking a holistic view of supply. So reuse has to be an immediate focus. Let’s start by turning wastewater into a resource.”

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