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The findings of the Green Drop 2025 report, released alongside the latest Blue Drop and No Drop progress assessments, highlight mounting strain across the country’s water sector. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

SA is moving backwards with water, says WaterCAN

The latest Green Drop report shows how the country’s rivers are being “turned into sewage channels”

  • Sheree Bega
3 min read
The poor condition of the water in Kamfers Dam. (Ester van der Westhuizen-Coetzer)

Sewage crisis at Kamfers Dam causes ‘biodiversity nightmare’ for waterbirds

Lab findings suggest botulism as the cause of the bird deaths, made worse by sewage from the Homevale wastewater treatment works

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read