Analysis - Sixty-four percent of the country's sewage and wastewater treatment plants are at 'high or critical' risk of dumping untreated water into rivers and the environment.
Sixty-four percent of the country's sewage and wastewater treatment plants are at 'high or critical' risk of dumping untreated water into rivers and the environment., the city finds itself in the midst of a severe water and sanitation crisis. Large parts of the city have been without water in recent weeks, and even after services ostensibly had been fixed, interruptions to the water supply persevered and spread wider, and lasted longer.
More nationally, in December 2023, the Department of Water and Sanitation's Blue and Green Drop reports showed that the declining quality and escalating losses of South Africa's urban water and sanitation infrastructure have escalated in six of the other seven metros and in half of smaller municipalities across the country.
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