The Minister of Water and Sanitation in his speech on World Water Day (22 March 2022) acknowledged the high levels of pollution of water resources and that the primary cause is poor municipal services and failing wastewater treatment plants. The Minister has established an Anti-Pollution Task Team t...

Water pollution in South Africa is so dire that it needs to be declared a state of national disaster to encourage a focused and urgent response. Daily there are billions of litres of industrial and pharmaceutical wastewater, mining waste and poorly treated or entirely untreated sewage that flows int...