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A stream of raw sewage flows from a leak just outside the Standerton wastewater treatment works perimeter fence, directly into the Vaal River visible in the background. The Vaal is the source of drinking water for South Africa’s most populous province, Gauteng, which is the country’s economic hub.

Communities turned into sewage swamps

byCenter for Collaborative Investigative Journalism

September 13, 2022

South Africa’s waste water crisis is making life unbearable for its residents

Residents of a new informal settlement outside Winburg gather to fill containers with water from a pipe supplied by the municipality. Sana Ntho, 54, said the water either has to be boiled or disinfected before drinking. With no electricity available, and firewood a scarce commodity, she adds a spoon of bleach to every 20-liter bucket of water.

Living in a ‘critical state’ — The price of a South African town’s dirty water

byCenter for Collaborative Investigative Journalism

August 17, 2022

Part of the reason Winburg’s water is contaminated is because the effluent released from the wastewater treatment works flows directly...

In October 2021, a failing pump station appeared to be the cause of untreated sewage flowing about 500 meters across a golf course and into the Vaal River, a major source of water, irrigation and recreation in Vereeniging, Gauteng. This sewage dam is such a permanent feature it is visible on a Google streetview image dated July 1999. Photo by Steve Kretzmann

‘A tsunami of human waste’

byCenter for Collaborative Investigative Journalism

Half of South Africa’s sewage treatment works are failing

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