A phone call from a local scrapyard owner directed Grahamstown farmer, Peter Wylie, to an irrigation pump stolen from his farm on Tuesday 8 April. Wylie collected the pump from the police station yesterday after a tip-off from scrap dealer Leonard Bodill. The police had retrieved it from another scrapyard, Wylie said. Bodill, who owns Metal Masters, described how he had realised the pump was probably stolen, and managed to identify the owner. That Tuesday, Bodill…

    Pump manufacturers should prepare for the changes that the impending regulations will bring, including possible design improvements.   This is the second part of a three-part series that discusses the upcoming U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) pump efficiency regulations and how the Hydraulic Institute (HI) is working with HI members, the DOE and other groups to reduce the burden on U.S. pump manufacturers, while supporting DOE efforts to achieve energy savings and efficiency improvements…

The dad of tragic Zane Gbangbola is believed to have recently bought “two industrial-sized water pumps” to deal with the extent of flooding at his Chertsey home. Michael Parker, president of the Sickle Cell Society where Kye Gbangbola is chairman, said he had been “working diligently despite having problems at home with flooding” over the past month. The 48-year-old and his partner Nicole Lawler, 36, remained in hospital on Sunday, following the death of seven-year-old Zane…

And the engineers said, open a tap and there shall be water. In theory anyway. But when all that happens is a hiss, maybe a few splats of brown sludge, many South Africans will know the feeling of “here we go again”. When that tap has only worked intermittently over the years, it is blood which flows as frustration leads to fear and fear leads to anger. In a nutshell, remember Madibeng in North West, or…