Tag Archives: Water Quality

SA’s drinking water quality has dropped due to defective infrastructure, neglect

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintReporter, The Citizen, 11 June 2023 A report released by the South African government paints a grim picture of the country’s water resources and water infrastructure as well as the overall quality of its drinking water. Read More

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Drinking water quality getting worse – Mchunu

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintJeanette Chabalala, Sowetan Live, 7 June 2023 The quality of water you are drinking now is worse than that you were drinking more than a decade ago. Read More

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Water Dept to release interim report on state of SA’s municipal drinking water

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintTamika Gounden, Eyewitness News, 6 June 2023 The Department of Water and Sanitation is expected to release its interim report on the state of municipal drinking and wastewater across the country on Tuesday. Read More

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Clear drinking water, then we pay our water bills: irate Hammanskraal residents

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintNkosikhona Duma, Eyewitness News, 28 January 2023 The residents of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria said they were still subjected to smelly and undrinkable water, years after City of Tshwane officials promised to intervene. Read More

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Stellenbosch cleans up its water with new treatment works

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintTimes Live, 5 March 2020 Membrane technology and UV disinfection have been deployed to combat pollution of Stellenbosch’s downstream water resource and the quality of drinking water, with the launch of a new waste water treatment works. Read More

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Committee requests report on Hammanskraal water quality

FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrintSouth African Government News, 10 February 2020 Tshwane Municipality and the Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Department have been instructed to provide quarterly reports on the intervention to resolve Hammanskraal water quality challenges. Read More

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