Polluted water is flowing into the Blood and Sand rivers
We are at the mercy of ageing infrastructure, corrupt municipal workers and city officials who have lost control over Johannesburg
The groundbreaking sanitation technologies are specifically designed to address problems in these communities
New Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says she will work with municipalities that are in debt, diversify water supply to include desalination and introduce measures to…
In 2012 the municipality was ordered to fix Carolina’s water problems, but has still not done so
Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water
Water specialists have said the use of glyphosate is in contravention of the National Water Act and is a risk for humans and toxic for aquatic life
Makana’s budget, and those of most municipalities, need monitoring and the corrupt and wasteful held to account
The nutrient enrichment problem can’t be solved unless appropriate levels of wastewater treatment are applied
Landowners and businesses in the Unesco World Heritage Site are up in arms over municipal sewage pollution
A lack of necessary skills has also contributed to the metro’s water and sanitation crisis
The protesters in Kariega said they had for years been asking for roads and drains to be fixed
The Northern wastewater treatment works disgorges sewage into the Umgeni River, which flows into the sea at Durban, polluting the city’s popular beaches
Farmers in the Apies River area decry the damage pollution from the defective wastewater treatment plant has done to their farms and livelihoods
In April last year, the department’s Green Drop report identified 334 wastewater systems in a critical condition in 90 municipalities.
The Green and Blue Drop reports show that more than 90% of the country’s wastewater treatment works are dysfunctional
Cholera was largely eliminated from industrialised countries more than a century ago, but there are still a significant number of cases each year in Africa
With its broken sewage and failing water treatment plants, South Africa has the perfect conditions for diseases such as cholera to thrive
The problems date back to about 2008, when large quantities of raw sewage began flowing into the Apies River from the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Works in Tshwane
Google Earth shows sewage filling the area from the cemetery to the township of Asiganang, and flowing to the Harts River
