Compliments to the Ekurhuleni Water Care Company (ERWAT) for winning six awards for excellence in water purification in the country on April 20.
ERWAT received honours for its wastewater treatment efforts at the 2022 National Green Drop Awards, which were recently held in the Western Cape.
The Green Drop Certification programme recognises excellence in wastewater treatment facility performance.
According to the ecstatically happy city manager Imogen Mashazi, the City of Ekurhuleni endeavours for excellence in all areas of work they are tasked to do.
“The issue of providing quality, sustainable and equitable services to our people remains of paramount importance to us, and it gives great pleasure to see that our hard work in the various aspects of our work gets recognition in critical quarters of society,” said Mashazi.
The Green Drop Certification procedure audited over 144 water service authorities.
Erwat’s six award-winning facilities are Daveyton, Rondebult, Herbert Buckley (Nigel), JP Marais (Benoni), Esther Park (Kempton Park) and Grundlingh (Nigel).
The programme aims to protect the environment from the dangers of dirty wastewater/sewage.
It raises the stakes above the minimal requirements and encourages Water Services Authorities to go above and beyond in their pursuit of excellence.
The criteria relied on five assessment areas, which were as follows:
Capacity management: process control, maintenance, technical/engineering and scientific.
Financial management: wastewater operations cost determination, energy demand, budget and expenditure, SCM of suppliers and service providers.
Environment management: wastewater risk abatement, effluent quality monitoring and sludge.
Management, laboratory credibility: technical management-design capacity, process audit/condition assessment, sewer main inspection, asset register and local regulation.
Quality compliance: monitoring information, authorisation, effluent quality compliance and sludge classification.
