Water security for high-stakes sites.

Industrial water risk arrives from three directions at once. Supply can be interrupted or fall short of demand. Source water varies in quality from one borehole, dam or season to the next. And everything that leaves the site as effluent is regulated, measured and attributable to you.

Leaning on municipal infrastructure no longer removes that risk. The regulator’s own assessments of the country’s wastewater works show how much of the system is under strain, and a site that discharges into a failing network inherits its problems.

For an operation that runs around the clock, the question is not whether to secure water independently, but how to do it without building and staffing a water department.

We build decentralised water infrastructure: water is sourced, treated, stored, distributed, recovered and measured where it is used, rather than piped in from a distant works and sent back to one.

On larger sites we group this into a Green Utility Zone: one compact compound in which water treatment, storage, wastewater treatment and the energy systems that run them sit together, metered and monitored as a single utility. It keeps the infrastructure out of the way of operations, makes it easier to secure and service, and gives you one place to read the whole water balance.

Water is a mission-critical asset. We engineer it to protect operations, not just to supply them.

Our three technologies are designed to work alone or together. On industrial sites they usually run as one closed loop, so treated wastewater returns as process, wash-down or dust-suppression water.

• LIVSupplyAlternative water supply

  Containerised or plant-room treatment for boreholes, dams and surface water, with storage and pressurised distribution sized to production demand.

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• LIVWasteOnsite waste treatment

  Onsite wastewater treatment, from ModMBR™ units to constructed wetlands, treated to the discharge or reuse standard your licence requires.

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• LIVSmartSmart utility management

  Metering, monitoring and billing across the site, so every drop is measured and every litre of loss is visible.

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Included in the scope

• Civil design and installation approvals
• Water-use licensing with the Department of Water and Sanitation
• Environmental impact assessments
• Effluent discharge permissions
• Potable water quality testing to SANS 241
• Smart meter integration for utility billing

Every scope can be financed three ways. Under Owner-Operator we fund, own and run the system and you pay a predictable service fee, with no upfront capital. Rent to Own also needs no upfront capital and transfers the asset to you at the end of the term. Outright Purchase is a capital purchase: the system is yours from commissioning, and we can still operate it under a service level agreement.

The result is an operation that no longer depends on the condition of someone else’s network, and a water account you can read, report and defend.

Mining and industrial operations face strict water regulation, from water-use licences and environmental authorisations to effluent quality and groundwater protection. We prepare, submit and maintain the documentation as part of the project, so compliance is designed in rather than added later.

• Water-use licensingDepartment of Water and Sanitation
• Environmental impact assessmentsEnvironmental authorisation for the infrastructure
• Mine water balance and monitoring reportsOngoing reporting from LIVSmart data
• Potable water quality testingSANS 241 drinking water standard
• Hazardous waste and greywater managementSeparated, treated and recorded
• Industrial effluent standardsTreatment to the limits in your licence or discharge permit