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The survey found that although the proportion of respondents who are connected to piped water remains high (92% in 2023-24), the percentage of respondents who believe their water is “always clean” declined from 75% in 2020-21 to 60% in 2023-24. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)

Water and sanitation department guns for 67 errant municipalities

Experts like civil engineers say it is not too late to save South Africa’s waterways from high levels of pollution

  • Des Erasmus
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