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Our Living Community - 6 May 2026

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Whenever the electricity goes off at home, we fall back on gas for cooking and heating, and candles for lighting. But what do we fall back on when we discover that we don't have water first thing in the morning? Well, if you have correctly installed and set up water tanks, you can use that after properly treating it. Alje van Hoorn from Aquarista tells Otto van der Walt which important aspects of cleansing to pay attention to.
6 May English South Africa Science · Nature

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