Inside Joburg's wastewater treatment works: keeping drinking water safe
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.
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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.