FAITH MUTHAMBI: Sewage-polluted rivers and white elephants
Of the country’s 824 wastewater treatment plants, only about 60 release clean water
26 November 2019 - 14:41
The recent media exposé on the vile state of water and sanitation in the Lekwa local municipality — Gert Sibande, Mpumalanga — is cause for great concern.
Ours is a drought-prone and water-scarce country. Broken water treatment plants that spew raw sewage into the country’s scarce fresh water sources are not only a deadly health and environmental hazard, they also threaten the survival strategies of those communities, who rely on our rivers for their livelihoods, including fresh-water fishing...
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