AGRICULTURE NEWS - It is hoped that a recent High Court judgement will ensure that municipal wastewater treatment works cease polluting nearby freshwater and land resources.
This was according to water resource management expert, Dr Anthony Turton, who said that around 60% of the country’s municipal wastewater treatment works were currently significantly or entirely ineffective.
Turton was responding to news that the Mahikeng High Court in North West had recently ordered the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality to take all necessary steps to stop raw sewage overflowing from the municipality’s plant onto a nearby farm, and into the Harts River and the Blespruit tributary.
A statement by South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) said the department had, since 2015, been trying to get the municipality to rehabilitate and upgrade its plant to effectively process raw sewage.
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