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South Africa: Durban Coastline - Sewage-Polluted Beaches a Threat to Holiday Makers, Environment
The Conversation Africa, 11 December 2022
Large numbers of businesses in eThekwini on South Africa's eastern seaboard - which includes the port city of Durban - rely heavily on tourism. It's a popular holiday destination,… Read more »
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South Africa: Thousands Flock to Durban's Sewage-Ridden Beaches
Scrolla, 21 December 2022
Close to 500,000 local and international holidaymakers visited Durban beaches, in Kwazulu-Natal, this past weekend despite allegations that the city's beaches are contaminated with… Read more »
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South Africa: Ethekwini Flooded With Sewage Due to Treatment Plant Failures
GroundUp, 11 November 2022
Experts and political parties have accused the municipality of minimising the enormity of the sewage pollution Read more »
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South Africa: Big Stink As City Hides Its Durban Beach Water Lab Results
Daily Maverick, 4 September 2022
The city's failure to play open cards threatens to further erode public trust in a beach monitoring system designed to safeguard public health. Read more »
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South Africa: Durban's Sewage-Fouled Beaches Closed Indefinitely for Swimming
Daily Maverick, 15 June 2022
With sewage pollution still above safe swimming levels at several places along the Durban coastline, there is still no certainty on when the city's main beaches will reopen. Read more »
Concern at State of Beaches in South Africa's Durban
Large numbers of businesses in KwaZulu-Natal's eThekwini on South Africa's eastern seaboard - which includes the port city of Durban - rely heavily on tourism. The city's beaches are facing an ongoing sewage crisis. Many have been closed along the Durban coastline.
Close to 500,000 local and international holidaymakers have visited Durban beaches, in Kwazulu-Natal, despite allegations that the city's beaches are contaminated with E. coli and human waste. From recorded water quality results, it is quite clear that most of the eThekwini municipality beaches are currently not safe for public and recreational activities, writes Anja Du Plessis for The Conversation.
Half of wastewater treatment works in South Africa fail to treat sewage properly and in many cases fail to treat it at all, writes Steve Kretzmann for GroundUp. This is according to the 2022 Green Drop report.
"This decline is at both the treatment and sewer collection levels," states the report. It is not just that wastewater treatment works are failing to properly treat sewage before releasing it back into the environment, much of it is spilling into the environment before even getting to the treatment works.
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Half of wastewater treatment works in South Africa fail to treat sewage properly and in many cases fail to treat it at all, writes Steve Kretzmann for Ground Read more »
eThekwini municipality cleanup crews have attempted to tackle the massive amount of waste pouring out of effluent and drainage pipes that discharge into the ocean. The beaches in eThekwini have been opened and closed in short succession as the City battles to control E. coli levels.
