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• South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• American Water Works Association (AWWA)
• Water Environmental Federation (WEF)
• National Institute for Standards Technology (NIST)
• South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions
  
• The South African Water Research Council (WRC) is mandated to support water research and development as well as the building of a sustainable water research capacity in South Africa . The WRC serves as the country's water-centred knowledge 'hub' leading the creation, dissemination and application of water-centred knowledge.
• Business, Water and the World
  Geneva, 3 April 2007 - The issues associated with energy, climate change and development have long over-shadowed water in terms of government, business and media attention. But it is precisely the growing importance of these three topics that has shed a new light on water.
• Purified sewage is unpalatable.
  Financial Times, 18 April 2007 -  Despite growing shortages, there are many options that can be explored before drinking waste. Veolia's Mr Frerot says: “To my knowledge, there are only two places in the world where treated waste water is gradually mixed into tapwater: the town of Windhoek , in Namibia , and Singapore http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjQxNTg

 

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