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Explore practical tips, case studies, and news on water, energy, and automation for modern businesses.
Smarter utilities, simpler workflows
Utilities - from water to electricity - are in the middle of a quiet revolution. The tools we use to plan, build and run them are getting smarter, cheaper and more connected. See More
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Pharma water system essentials
Pharmaceutical water underpins everything from buffer prep to final cleaning. Get it right and your batches flow; get it wrong and you invite deviations, downtime and recalls. See More
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BESS storage: a West African playbook
If you manage a commercial or industrial site in West Africa, you already know the story: the grid is unreliable, diesel is volatile, and every outage costs real money. See More
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Residential water solutions in West Africa
Household water in West Africa is a practical challenge: supplies are intermittent, pressure drops are common, and quality can vary from one week to the next. See More
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Self-serve scheduling made easy
Letting prospects book meetings or demos in seconds isn’t a convenience feature; it’s the shortest path from intent to conversation. The difference shows up everywhere that matters. See More
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Chat & WhatsApp for support
Live chat and WhatsApp are not just new front doors to support; they are the corridors that connect discovery, purchase and care. Customers can move from help to chat straight to purchase. See More
GDPR-safe lead capture tips
Lead capture sits at the fault line between marketing ambition and privacy law. In one direction lies more data, more personalisation and more pipeline; in the other, consent rules, ePrivacy constraints increasingly targets the touchpoints for leads. See More
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From audit to automation
Every successful automation programme begins with a clear-eyed audit. Not a box-ticking ritual, but a structured look at how work truly flows - where information stalls, which hand-offs fail, and why the same risks keep resurfacing. See More
Dialysis expansion in Nigeria - ISO-23500 water rooms for safer care
Nigeria’s dialysis landscape is shifting fast. In March 2025 the Federal Government approved an 80% subsidy that cut dialysis costs at 11 federal hospitals from roughly ₦50,000 to ₦12,000 per session, a move intended to push access to six geopolitical zones. See More
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Non-revenue water (NRW) is now a board metric
Regulators and utilities in the region are publishing tougher NRW benchmarks; Ghana Water’s regulator tracks performance in the 39-43% range and pushes continuous reduction. At utility level, reports detailed physical-, commercial- and metering-gaps. See More
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Pharma & packaged water compliance
Nigeria’s regulator has refreshed GMP guidance and continues to issue facility requirements for packaged/drinking water. The direction is clear: validated systems, documented control and water specs aligned to intended use. For pharma and high-care food, that means lifecycle evidence (URS→IQ/OQ/PQ). See More
Urban service reform in Lagos
Lagos State is actively engaging on a pilot PPP to boost operational efficiency, reduce system losses and improve equitable distribution. Civil society scrutiny is intense, so winning projects will be those that prove affordability, transparency and measurable gains in coverage and losses from day one. See More
Grid-scale stabilisation in Nigeria: feasibility
Nigeria is edging from PowerPoint to projects on battery energy storage. In late July 2025, the African Development Bank confirmed a US$1.2 million grant to fund a national feasibility study on grid-connected BESS led by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (working with the new system operator). See More
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C&I and data-centre resilience
Power quality is now a board-level risk in Nigeria. Repeated nationwide collapses, including the 10 September 2025 event, have sharpened the question for commercial and industrial (C&I) operators and data-centre builders: how do we ride through faults without living on diesel? See More
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Rural & peri-urban access: mini-grids
Rural electrification in Nigeria is no longer a proof-of-concept; it’s a programme. Since December 2023 the World Bank’s DARES initiative has framed a scale-up path to reach more than 17.5 million Nigerians with distributed renewables, expanding on the Nigeria Electrification Programme’s early wins and crowding in private capital. See More
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Five-year zero-degradation blocks
There’s a moment in every storage conversation where a spreadsheet turns into a story. The numbers claim a payback; the site team remembers brownouts and dust storms; the lender wants to know what happens in year four when batteries age. That is the room where a “premium spec” starts being a financing tool. See More