Water

Turnkey Water Infrastructure, Engineered for Performance, Financed for Growth

From borehole extraction to advanced membrane treatment, we design, build, and operate bankable water solutions across Africa.

Core Pillars:

  1. Packaged Systems: Mobile, skid, and containerised units for rapid deployment.
  2. Turnkey Infrastructure: Drilling, pipelines, civil reservoirs, and conventional plants.
  3. Smart Operations: 24/7 remote telemetry monitoring and qualified process controllers.

Modular & Fixed Water Treatment Plants

Mobile Plant Trailers

  • Capacity: 20 kℓ/day to 500 kℓ/day.
  • Best For: Emergency supply, rapid deployment, pilot studies.
  • Features: On-board power options, telemetry, hybrid membrane tech.

Skid / Containerised Package Plants

  • Capacity: 20 kℓ/day to 20,000 kℓ/day (20 Mℓ/day).
  • Best For: Rapid industrial setup, standardised scalable growth.
  • Features: Expeditious installation, custom-engineered internals.

Fixed Civil Installations

  • Capacity: 500 kℓ/day to large-scale municipal limits.
  • Best For: Long-term municipal potable water and heavy industrial reuse.
  • Features: Custom civil engineering, permanent infrastructure asset.

Technical Excellence

Advanced Calculations

Showcase your capabilities in Hydraulic, Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical modelling/simulations.

Water Chemistry Labs

Highlighting capabilities in Coagulation, Blending, Disinfection, and Corrosion control.

General Engineering Workshop

Custom steel, stainless steel, and PVC pipe fabrication. Specialized Arc, MIG, and TIG welding.

Plant Maintenance Services

  • Membrane testing & chemical cleaning.
  • Dosing equipment & instrument calibration.
  • Ad-hoc servicing vs. full-time plant operation contracts.

Engineered Across Industries

Mining & Industrial

  • Focus: Heavy iron/manganese removal, process water loop optimization, and ultrafiltration.
  • Impact: Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) compliance and reduced operational downtime.

Agriculture & Farming

  • Focus: Smart irrigation networks, sustainable hydroponics, and brackish borehole desalination.
  • Impact: Maximized crop yields and secure year-round food production.

Municipal & Community

  • Focus: Bulk potable water supply, containerized emergency interventions, and upgrading failing infrastructure.
  • Impact: Rapid delivery of safe, SANS 241-compliant drinking water to remote areas.

Bankable Water Infrastructure

Why Financing Matters

  • BOO (Build-Own-Operate): Zero upfront Capex. We build and run the plant; you pay only for metered water.
  • BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer): We engineer and run the plant for a set tenure before handing over ownership.
  • Direct Capex: Outright purchase with customizable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for ongoing maintenance.

Flexible Capital Structure

  • Preserves Working Capital: Deploy capital to your core business while we handle utilities.
  • Risk Mitigation: Performance guarantees ensure you only pay for water that meets spec.
  • Off-Balance Sheet: Keep your financial ratios healthy with operational expenditure models.

Smart Treatment Systems

Remote Telemetry & Control

  • Live Dashboarding: Real-time flow, pressure, and water quality tracking via GSM/Satellite networks.
  • Predictive Maintenance: AI-driven alerts fix membrane scaling and pump faults before breakdown occurs.

Specialized Tech Portfolios

  • ClearFox Wastewater Technology: Advanced biological treatment requiring minimal power and low sludge handling.
  • Membrane Systems: Multi-stage Ultrafiltration (UF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) configurations

World-Class Standards & Compliance

We operate at the highest global levels of safety, quality, and environmental stewardship. Ikusasa Water (Pty) Ltd proudly maintains full international certification across three critical regulatory frameworks:

Guarantees precision, performance consistency, and excellence in project delivery.

Drives our commitment to sustainable construction and minimizing environmental impact.

Ensures a zero-harm operational culture that fiercely protects our workforce and sites.

CIDB Bidding & Execution Capacity

As a trusted partner to the public and private sectors in South Africa, Ikusasa Projects possesses the legal grading and financial capability to execute large-scale, high-value infrastructure tenders. We hold a Grade 8designation with the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), qualifying us for projects valued at up to R200 Million per single contract across three main engineering disciplines:

8ME | Mechanical Engineering:

Large-scale plant fabrication, pump stations, and advanced water purification unit installations.

8CE | Civil Engineering:

Heavy earthworks, concrete structures, bulk piping networks, and road construction.

8EP | Electrical Engineering Infrastructure:

Industrial automation, plant power distribution, and high-power grid integration.

Sustainable Farming – Water Solutions for Sustainable Farming Future

Ikusasa Warer supports your agribusiness operations, high-efficiency water management technologies are critical to maximizing yields while conserving resources. Implementing precision engineering across these core areas ensures consistent delivery, chemical balance, and sustainable water reuse.

Hydroponic Systems Water Provision

  • Automated Dosing: Continuous injection of precise macro and micronutrients into the water stream using sensor-driven computerized systems.
  • EC & pH Control: Inline monitors constantly adjust electrical conductivity (EC) and pH levels to keep water chemically optimized for specific crop roots.
  • Thermal Regulation: Chillers and inline heaters maintain water temperatures between 18°C and 22°C to prevent root rot and maximize dissolved oxygen.

Drip Irrigation Solutions

  • Pressure Compensation: Pressure-compensating (PC) drippers deliver a uniform volume of water to every plant, regardless of elevation changes or long pipe runs.
  • Subsurface Drip (SDI): Burying lines directly beneath the root zone eliminates evaporation losses and prevents weed growth between crop rows.
  • Anti-Clogging Filtration: Heavy-duty disc and media filters remove fine suspended solids and organic matter from water sources to keep emitters clear.

Key Farming Water Recycling Solutions

  • Closed-Loop Tailwater Recovery: Capturing, filtering, and re-sterilizing agricultural runoff water to feed back into irrigation loops.
  • Advanced Disinfection: Using ultraviolet (UV) sterilization, ozone treatment, and ultrafiltration to kill crop pathogens without leaving chemical residues in recycled water.
  • RO Desalination Reclaim: Utilizing Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems to strip out accumulated salts from drainage water, making it safe for re-use.

Aquaculture & Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS)

  • Solids Removal: Utilizing mechanical drum filters and settling basins to instantly strip fish waste and uneaten feed from the water.
  • Biological Filtration: Using moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) populated with beneficial bacteria to convert toxic ammonia into harmless nitrates.
  • Gas Management: Deploying protein skimmers, oxygen cones, and degassing towers to strip carbon dioxide and inject pure dissolved oxygen into the fish tanks.

Acid Mine Drainage – Impact for a Better Water Future

Ikusasa Water provides specialized, scalable engineering and chemical solutions designed to treat Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), offering a critical environmental fix that turns toxic mining wastewater into high-quality resources to enhance regional water security.

By deploying advanced modular treatment plants and targeted chemical engineering, the company collaborates with the mining sector to mitigate heavy metal pollution, protect local catchments, and support the circular economy.

Core Technology & Environmental Fix

  • Membrane Ultrafiltration (UF): Utilizes an advanced, mechanical membrane system that physical screens out micro-impurities, bacteria, and suspended solids from highly compromised surface or underground mine water.
  • Chemical Neutralisation & Flocculation: Deploys automated chemical dosing (including pH adjusters, flocculants, and coagulants) to neutralise high sulfuric acidity and force dissolved heavy metals like iron (“yellow boy”) and manganese to precipitate out of the solution.
  • Desalination and Reverse Osmosis (RO): Integrates high-pressure RO technologies within specialized configurations to strip out deep-seated sulfates and brackish salts, converting hazardous effluent into potable or industrial-grade water.

Raw Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)

Chemical Neutralisation   ◄── (pH Adjusters & Flocculants reduce acidity/metals)

Membrane Ultrafiltration   ◄── (Mechanical extraction of bacteria & micro-particles)

Reverse Osmosis / Desalination ◄─ (Removal of heavy sulfates and dissolved salts)

Pure Potable / Industrial Water  ──► (Boosts regional water security)

Mining Water Security Solutions

  • Flexible Plant Infrastructure: Provides mobile, skid-mounted, and containerised package plants that can be quickly deployed directly to active or legacy mine shafts to intercept toxic decant.
  • Sustainable Operations Models: Offers flexible commercial frameworks including Build/Own/Operate (BOO) and Build/Operate/Transfer (BOT) contracts, alleviating the capital expenditure burden on mining houses.
  • Remote Monitoring Ecosystems: Equips treatment infrastructure with digital telemetry and remote control architecture, managed by qualified process controllers to ensure continuous, 24/7 environmental compliance.
  • Circular Resource Recovery: Aids compliance with South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) circular economy mandates by converting a hazardous environmental liability into usable agricultural irrigation or process water.

Reliable Water Solutions. Engineered for Africa

From boreholes and treatment plants to smart monitoring and long-term operations, we deliver turnkey water infrastructure that keeps communities, industries, and agriculture moving forward.

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