South Africa is ranked 30th in the world for air pollution.
Frightening levels of E-coli pollution found on beaches from Cape Town to Durban still spell disaster for beachgoers this December.
Recent aerial photographs show a ‘river of sewage’ flowing near Lichtenburg in the North-West, after the municipality’s sewage plant broke down.
We take a brief look at the problem and at what’s being done to solve it, both in South Africa and in other places around the globe.
At first they tried to deny that they were doing it, but pretending that 55 million litres of sewage just didn’t happen is a tough gig.
Sewage pipelines are being built as fast as possible, in order to let sewage overflow run into the Vaal dam, one of the country’s largest freshwater stores.
South Africa is already using 98% of all available water resources and, with summer here it’s only going to get worse.