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Webinar: Sewage Pollution in South Africa - A Human Rights Violation

Webinar: Sewage Pollution in South Africa - A Human Rights Violation

The state of South Africa’s water resources and sanitation services and infrastructure are in a dire state. Billions of litres of untreated sewage are being released into our rivers, oceans and streets every day and this needs to s...
29.03.2022 00:17:20
The Anti-Pollution Task Team must have real sting to deal with pollution

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...

23.03.2022 20:23:23
Citizen action is the key to rescuing South Africa’s failing water and sanitation systems

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...

21.03.2022 19:14:17
Sewage pollution: a violation of basic human rights


South Africa’s water resources, sanitation services and infrastructure are in a dire state. Billions of litres of industrial pollution, pharmaceutical wastewater, mine waste and untreated sewage are being released into our rivers and oceans every day. This needs to stop. The Organisation Undoing Tax...

18.03.2022 20:33:16