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Water Treatment Plants

Looking after your water quality . . . so that you can get down to business.

Treating and reusing water in a process or mining environment can have a positive impact on a company’s operational costs – and sustainability. Especially in areas where water is scarce and expensive.

Watercare Innovations has a proven track record of building, operating and maintaining water plants designed for water quality control, treating complex water to a standard that is fit for purpose. Be that SANS241:2015 potable quality, quality fit to reintroduce to the process water system or a quality compliant for environmental discharge.

We understand your need to maximise resources on your core business activities. In partnering with you, Watercare Innovations removes the responsibility and resources required to build, maintain and operate your planned, or existing, treatment plant.

We offer various financial models to match your requirements – and capital expenditure budget. From an outright purchase to a Build-Own-Maintain (BOM) or Build-Own-Operate (BOO) model, we’ll discuss the options that best fit your needs.

Our aim? To lower your cost of ownership of the water treatment technologies in the engineered plants we supply.

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Treating any industrial water stream for a clear ROI

Every day, our skilled operational teams produce more than 27 megalitres of SANS 241:2015-compliant potable water. Our approach is to treat the quality of feedwater provided to a standard that is fit-for-purpose, helping your operation to improve its economic, process and environmental efficiencies. We design plant-specific solutions using the most appropriate and leading-edge technologies. Our aim is to provide the best solution for each application with a keen focus on delivering financially viable systems that provide a maximum return on investment.

Engineered water treatment plants that work

Our systems are modular and easy to implement. They are designed according to the key specifications required by the end-user. From mining to municipal applications, we consider our clients’ long-term water requirements to design a solution that works. Plant not reaching its potential? Whether your plant is not delivering on the initial design criteria or is performing poorly, we’ll assess it and propose a turnaround strategy. Watercare Innovations is not bound to our own in-house technologies and will source market-leading solutions that meet the key specifications required by the end-user. We consider our client’s long term water strategy to design solutions that work.

Media Filtration

- Cartridge Filtration
- Sand Filtration
- Glass Media Filtration
- Dual Media Filtration
- Carbon filtration

Membrane Technology

- Ultrafiltration
- Nano Filtration
- Reverse Osmosis
- CoolQuench Portable Water Plant
- Crystallisers

Ion Exchange

- Demineralisation Plants
- Conventional Softeners
- Chloride Closed Cycle Softening
- Cold Lime Softening

Onsite. Offsite. Never out of sight

Our trained and qualified personnel are deployed to your water treatment plants, taking care of the operations and maintenance of the equipment and other water-related infrastructure. With a technical team of multi-disciplinary engineers, your water treatment plant is in good hands. We provide support to keep your operation running like clockwork:

Rapid deployment in case of emergency repairs and maintenance
24hr engineering support – process, chemical, mechanical, electrical
Onsite trained plant operators, supervisors and engineers
Offsite remote system monitoring by trained specialists
Safety officers

Unconventional design? We’ve got you covered

Watercare Innovations does not have a standard solution range, which becomes restrictive. We prefer to design plant-specific solutions using market-leading products and technologies, in combination with our own product range.

Some of our success stories where we’ve added value to the pre-existing water:

25 – 28ML/day treatment of excess mine fissure water to SANS 241:2015 quality potable water utilised by the local community
4.7ML/day treatment of mine impacted water where one water stream is treated for the removal of iron and nickel to a quality that is compliant for environmental discharge, and one stream treated to SANS 241:2015 potable quality
0.3ML/day treatment of borehole water for the removal of iron and manganese to SANS 241:2015 at a residential eco-estate

Water treatment case study: Remotely monitored, potable water production for a residential eco-estate

The eco-estate, based on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast in South Africa, aimed to implement a cost-effective, sustainable drinking water strategy that was aligned with the environmental philosophy of the development.

Our proposal: A turnkey solution for the reticulation of potable water generated from mixed sources, including domestic waste and borehole water.

Phase One was a new water plant for the treatment of borehole water. The new design consists of the following unit operations:

Upfront coagulation, pH correction and ozone injection for the oxidation of unwanted minerals dissolved in the water
Two-step filtration to remove insoluble minerals and remaining suspended solids
Disinfection compliant with SANS 241:2015-1
Real-time monitoring of the final product water for pH, conductivity and ORP (oxidation-reduction potential as a disinfection control measure)

The plant now consistently produces water that carries no unwanted dissolved minerals. The turbidity is consistently less than 1 NTU, and the total dissolved solids average 370μg/L. Automation and remote monitoring have reduced the operational labour requirements.

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The Watercare difference:

Determination, passion and diligence of our on-site service representatives
Intimate knowledge of water systems
Technical ability in implementing practical solutions
Problem-solving using an array of technologies