Topanama village, in Limpopo’s Mopani District, has been without water for the past seven months. Residents, at their wits end, have started drinking water from a local canal, and community leaders fear a diarrhoea outbreak on top of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Water shortages have rendered residents of Nabane village vulnerable to the spread of Covid-19, due to not being able to comply with Covid-19 protection measures, such as regular hand washing.
LIMPOPO-Due to shortage of water within several villages, in Vhembe district, scores of residents are facing difficulties adhering to the call by the department of health to always wash hands, but all that is set to change with the Department of Water and Sanitation supplying water
Water shortages and restrictions are some of the issues that impact the quality of care at Kgapane Hospital
Residents choke on the stench of contaminated water overflowing onto their streets despite reporting it to the City of Cape Town.
Residents say they have been reporting the issue for years, a stream of councillors come and go but the stink remains. This is life for the people of Boitumelo.
WATER CASE STUDY: Parys residents say their tap water is dirty and stinks like rotten eggs, and experts say it's because of sewage going into the Vaal River.
Forget power cuts. What is happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, corruption and indifference, South Africans are vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.
WATER CASE STUDY: Parys residents say their tap water is dirty and stinks like rotten eggs, and experts say it's because of sewage going into the Vaal River.
Heat waves have been hitting parts of South Africa as summer takes hold and the holiday season approaches prompting health authorities to warn people to stay out of the sun when temperatures spike and to drink lots of water.
LIMPOPO - A water project meant to supply Mashau village and surrounding villages in Vuwani with clean drinking water is under threat after residents who were promised temporary employment at the project were not hired.
Cape Town’s drought could fuel growing resistance to common antibiotics as more people are expected to become sick when normal hygiene practices are pushed aside in the name of saving water – resulting in more antibiotics being dispensed.
LIMPOPO - Despite the Vhembe District Municipality having reached an agreement with the Department of Water and Sanitation to settle their bulk water bill which now sits at R 300-million, the rural municipality is facing various additional problems.
LIMPOPO - Lesedi Clinic in Lephapane, outside Tzaneen in the Mopani District has gone without water for four months after the water supply was found to be infested with bacteria. Mogale Mojela reports that the water has been switched off altogether.
Despite the Limpopo Department of Health’s drive to warn rural villagers not to drink contaminated river water, residents are continuing to do so as the dirty water is all they have access to.
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