Living with water not fit for human consumption - a Hammanskraal tragedy

Community members adversely affected by the pollution seeping from the dilapidated Rooiwal wastewater treatment works have detailed the difficulties they have endured while living with dirty water.

Children getting sick, water tankers not delivering, and farm businesses ruined by the polluted water were just some of the issues incensed residents raised this week, following a visit from Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink and Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu.

Brink and Mchunu's site visits at the dilapidated Rooiwal wastewater treatment works and Klipdrift water treatment works on Wednesday were followed by a meeting with Hammanskraal community members.