Water Pollution: NGOs Urge Govt to Act

Environmental organisations have called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to appeal to the government to take action on the contamination of South Africa’s water resources, which they say could lead to environmental disaster and health problems for Witwatersrand residents.

The National Water Forum, the Federation for a Sustainable Environment for the Olifants River and the National Taxpayers Union have, in a letter to Mary Anne Groepe of WHO in the country, describe the growing crisis as a ‘time bomb’.

“With continued pollution by defunct sewage works and only three percent of waste treatment plants in working order, thousands of megalitres of untreated human sewage is being pumped into our rivers and dams.

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