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Joburg Water invited media to one of the entity’s best-functioning sewerage works. Yet 40% of SA’s wastewater treatment works are woefully inadequate.

Recent outbreaks of cholera in Hammanskraal in Gauteng and in the Free State have shed light on the critical importance of effective water.

DWS has initiated a thorough investigation into the recent Cholera outbreak in the City of Tshwane and Ngwathe Local Municipality.

All four towns that have recorded cholera deaths this year have failing drinking water supply and failing sewage treatment plants

A deadly combination of sewage in streets and rivers, and dirty drinking water - or no water - in the taps is common to all four areas where people have died of cholera in the last two months.



While water in the taps is dirty or simply not available, sewage runs in the streets of towns where cholera has led to death, prompting a warning by group of senior scientists of a national health and environmental emergency.

All four towns that have recorded cholera deaths this year have failing drinking water supply and failing sewage treatment plants

Citizen science empowers local communities with the data on water quality they need to take action and alert authorities to key pollution issues.

What we learn from the history of cholera is that resistance to implement fundamental human health management practices, first learnt in London in the 1800s, costs human lives.

What we learn from the history of cholera is that resistance to implementing fundamental human health management practices, first learnt in London in the 1800s, costs human lives.