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    <title>Mossel Bay Municipality; Latest News</title>
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      <title><![CDATA[WATER SUFFICIENT UNTIL JANUARY 2011 PROVIDED SAVINGS CONTINUE (28 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/113/WATER_SUFFICIENT_UNTIL_JANUARY_2011_PROVIDED_SAVINGS_CONTINUE/28_July_2010</link>
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      The water situation in Mossel Bay is still extremely serious, but because of a number of factors which include improved availability of water from the Wolwedans Dam and the commissioning of two boreholes, the town’s water supply is now expected to last to January 2011 if it does not rain enough before then and provided the current water savings trends are maintained, says the Municipality in a news release.
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      <title><![CDATA[NESTLÉ EXCELS AT SAVING WATER (23 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/108/NESTL_EXCELS_AT_SAVING_WATER/23_July_2010</link>
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      Nestlé in Mossel Bay, which produces milk powder and canned milk products and is part of the multi-national Nestlé group, displayed the best possible example of responsible corporate citizenship in the way they heeded the call to save water in the serious water crisis experienced in Mossel Bay at present, says the Executive of Mayor of Mossel Bay, Alderlady Marie Ferreira.
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      <title><![CDATA[DESALINATION CONSTRUCTION SITE WILL BE REHABILITATED FULLY (23 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/110/DESALINATION_CONSTRUCTION_SITE_WILL_BE_REHABILITATED_FULLY/23_July_2010</link>
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      The dune and beach area, which will be affected by the construction of the seawater desalination plant at Voorbaai, will be rehabilitated fully on completion of the project. Measures will also be implemented to ensure that the overall impact of this emergency water project on the environment is limited to the absolute minimum.
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      <title><![CDATA[DESALINATION PROJECT NECESSITATES TEMPORARY BEACH CLOSURE (23 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/111/DESALINATION_PROJECT_NECESSITATES_TEMPORARY_BEACH_CLOSURE/23_July_2010</link>
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      The construction of the emergency seawater desalination plant and pipeline at Voorbaai to increase Mossel Bay’s water supply, will necessitate the temporary closure of a stretch of beach at Voorbaai, according to a statement issued by the Municipality.

 

The construction of the emergency seawater desalination plant and pipeline at Voorbaai to increase Mossel Bay’s water supply, will necessitate the temporary closure of a stretch of beach at Voorbaai, according to a statement issued by the Municipality.

 

The construction of the emergency seawater desalination plant and pipeline at Voorbaai to increase Mossel Bay’s water supply, will necessitate the temporary closure of a stretch of beach at Voorbaai, according to a statement issued by the Municipality.
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      <title><![CDATA[COUNCIL IMPOSES MORATORIUM ON DEVELOPMENTS (23 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/112/COUNCIL_IMPOSES_MORATORIUM_ON_DEVELOPMENTS/23_July_2010</link>
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      The Town Council of Mossel Bay at its monthly meeting on 14 July 2010 decided to place a moratorium on the approval of all new property developments exceeding ten units. The moratorium has been imposed because of the drought situation and the deteriorating water supply situation in Mossel Bay.
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      <title><![CDATA[MUNICIPALITY BRINGS JOY TO CHILDREN ON MADIBA DAY (22 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/109/MUNICIPALITY_BRINGS_JOY_TO_CHILDREN_ON_MADIBA_DAY/22_July_2010</link>
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      Councillors as well as municipal workers of Mossel Bay chose to bring joy to children, the homeless and women on Friday, 16 July 2010, as their 67 minutes of community service in honour of Mr Nelson Mandela.
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      <title><![CDATA[WELCOME RAIN MADE SMALL DIFFERENCE TO LEVEL OF DAM (16 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/104/WELCOME_RAIN_MADE_SMALL_DIFFERENCE_TO_LEVEL_OF_DAM/16_July_2010</link>
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      The rain that fell last weekend was most welcome from an agricultural and gardening point of view, but the 31 mm received in the catchment area of the Wolwedans Dam was again unfortunately insufficient to make much of a difference to the level of the dam, says the Municipality in a news release on the water situation in Mossel Bay.
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      <title><![CDATA[TOWN OF YEAR: VOTE FOR MOSSEL BAY (16 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/106/TOWN_OF_YEAR_VOTE_FOR_MOSSEL_BAY/16_July_2010</link>
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      Thank you very much for your votes that helped to make Mossel Bay the Western Cape’s 2010 Town of Year Competition for 2010. Now your vote is needed to make Mossel Bay South Africa’s 2010 Town of the Year in the competition organised by Rapport and Kwela.
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      <title><![CDATA[WEEKLY WATER BULLETIN NO 7 (16 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/107/WEEKLY_WATER_BULLETIN_NO_7/16_July_2010</link>
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      The 31 mm rain that fell in the catchment area of the Wolwedans Dam last weekend was again unfortunately insufficient to make much of a difference to the level of the dam.  Its level rose by about by about 0,4 per cent, which was equal to 100 megalitres of water and about three to four days of extraction from the dam by PetroSA, farmers and the Municipality.

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      <title><![CDATA[R49 M REVERSE OSMOSIS PLANT COMPLETED (01 July 2010)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.mosselbaymun.co.za/news_article/102/R49_M_REVERSE_OSMOSIS_PLANT_COMPLETED/01_July_2010</link>
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      The new Reverse Osmosis plant to purify effluent water for use by PetroSA to ease the pressure on the Wolwedans Dam, was completed last week and is scheduled to start supplying purified water to PetroSA’s synthetic fuels plant at Mossel Bay in the course of next week
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