• Zimbabwe: Sewage-Fed Vegetables Give Pause for Thought

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 16 April 2012

    Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable plot.

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  • robin
    Apr 16 2012, 16:30

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  • chiedzachinyamaa
    Apr 17 2012, 03:26

    the goverment should do something about sewage flows in most areas of zimbabwe.honestly it is unhealthy.i do not blame this woman because you find out that is the is water for days so they turn to sewage to water gardens as it their source of income

  • f_rector
    Apr 17 2012, 07:34

    This is just a question of image but there is nothing wrong with vegetables grown from sewage water. Many times we had added fertilizer, manure from cow dung or animal excrement and have comfortably ate the vegetables grown from that. Psychologically we are just uncomfortable with the fact that human manure could produce the same good results. Nature has always recycled natural waste. I commend you Saungweme for giving us a new vision on what it means to recycle.... Keep up the good work

  • ragtimer
    Apr 19 2012, 16:33

    If I had a penny for every person that died from drinking water that their eyes told them was safe, I'd have more money than the World Bank. It's not much safer eating vegetables watered with sewage; the USA undergoes an e.coli panic every few months from "natural" (read: unmonitored by the government) farms using tainted water on their crops.