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PRECINCT LIVING

The answer to our
water problems is to

enrich the soil.

Solving South Africa’s

Water Management Crisis

BY JOSH TRUTER

ome time ago, I was asked to WHERE IT ALL STARTED solution by studying an M.Sc.Degree
write an article about how to make After matriculating from Fourways in Water Resource Management at the
Sa compost heap. This prompted High, Himkaar went on to study Cologne University of Applied Sciences
me to give it a try myself. However, after civil engineering at the University of in Germany. As the Masters programme
months of missioning with shredding, Witwatersrand, graduating with his B.Sc. focused on challenges in the Middle
layering, watering and turning the Civil Engineering degree in 2014. In 2017, East and East Asia, Himkaar spent
heap over many times, I realised that South Africa was experiencing quite a 12 months travelling and scouting for
maintaining a compost heap is a huge bad drought with no long term solution, solutions, and he came to the conclusion
pain in the rear end. It’s definitely too so he left the country to try and find a that he needed to repair the soil of South
much hard work. And it takes quite a
long time before everything is reduced
to the texture that’s right for the garden.
That’s why using a service like the one
offered by The Compost Kitchen makes
a whole lot more sense.

Many of you will already know the
originator of The Compost Kitchen,
Himkaar Singh, as a resident of
Dainfern Golf Estate and member of
the estate’s Board of Trustees. You may
also be subscribing to his composting
and Bokashi services. You’ll know him
because, as a start-up, Himkaar has
been doing everything himself. But his
vision for the future is that he will be
a little more hands-off as he seeks to
empower his staff, service providers –
and his customers. The Compost Kitchen creates composting solutions.
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