Sewage flows in streets

This is a shocking extract from www.savingwater.co.za

Sewage flows in streets

Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) - partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 02 April 2010.


A new warning has been issued to the public not to swim or fish in the Swartkops River as the water quality has deteriorated further.

Last month, the 2010 Redhouse River Mile had to be moved from the Swartkops River to Cannonville on the Sundays River due to dangerously high levels of pollution.

Jenny Rump of the Zwartkops Trust said yesterday that effluent had been flowing into the river for days because broken sewerage pipes had not been repaired. “The trust has received complaints from the residents of Aloes and Wells Estate that sewage has been running past their houses.

“It has been flowing in their streets for days now,” added Rump, The Herald General Motors Citizen of the Year. “This is dangerous for the people’s health. They have to live with the sewage smell for days,” she said

Rump said the Swartkops River, popular among swimmers and anglers, attracted a lot of visitors over the Easter weekend. Some of the stormwater drains that run through Wells Estate, which borders the sea, were broken, Rump added.

The deluge of litter that comes from the drains also joins the Swartkops River, causing two types of pollution.

“Sewage sometimes also bubbles onto the streets of Motherwell, apparently from collector stations where pumps have broken down, and then finds its way via the stormwater drains into the river,” she said.

Municipal spokesman Kupido Baron could not comment last night on the latest pollution development at the Swartkops River. “All I know is that we have been working on the issue since the time the River Mile event scheduled to take place there had to move.

“I know there is a strategy in place, and we have weekly testing of the bacteria level at the river,” he added without disclosing the nature of the plan.

Source: Weekend Post

What Dangerous Sources is your Water Coming From?

When you open your tap and clear water comes out, do you ever stop to wonder where it comes from? Do you know what the state of the pipes are that bring it to your home or office, or do you go blindly on faith hoping that the water fairy will turn it magically into the kind of quality that be helpful to your body, your family's health and your collegues health.

This is small extract that comes from an article psoted in http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263078 on 05 December 2008. It is certanly not the first and last since then.

South Africa's largest commercial farmers' union yesterday urged the acting-president to declare a national emergency over the country's dangerously-polluted fresh water resources.
In a joint meeting with the commercial banking and farming sector and South Africa's acting-president Kgalema Motlanthe, the government was warned if fresh-water streams, dams and lakes were not cleaned up urgently, the country would soon plunge into an unprecedented humanitarian and economic crisis.

The parliamentary joint working group meeting with South Africa's commercial community and the acting president was called after the country's top water-research expert, Dr Anthony Turton of the state-funded Council for Scientific and Industrial Research warned last week that South Africa was facing very rapid socio-economic collapse due to the heavily polluted South African fresh-water resources.
He warned that all its fresh water supplies now were so heavily polluted with human excrement and waste from some 80,000 overcrowded squatter camps, chemical waste from the country's thousands of industries and mines that South Africa's very low rainfall was unable to wash it clean any longer. Even the aquifers were getting polluted. An urgent cleanup was needed - and the farmers urged the president to start with the countrywide cleanup by hiring 'competent municipal engineers' instead of unqualified ANC-cronies to repair the 181 broken municipal water-purification plants countrywide. - (Apologies, for the descriptions, this was an extract of an article. It neither reflects, our beliefs or opinions, but is for infomation puposes only)

So when you turn on the tap and hand over that glass to your child, the question is not, "should I give them this glass of water?" (because we know that clean and safe water is CRITICAL to your health. Rather you should be asking: "How can I make the water that I have access to safer."

Contact us on info@belleregalo.co.za for a easy and clinically tested method of purefying water at the home and office.