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sewerage
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Cape Town Is Being Allowed To Pump As Much Sewage Into The Sea As It Likes
18 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Cape Town will have more than just Vaalies floating around its beautiful beaches.
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Camps Bay Beach Closed After Sewage Pump Station Failure
31 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
There has been a failure at the pump station that discharges “partially treated” sewage into the ocean via an outfall pipe in Camps Bay, resulting in the temporary closure of Camps Bay beach.
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Dozens Of Swimmers Left Severely Ill After Swimming In River Thames Triathlon
14 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The illnesses come as water companies across the UK come under intense scrutiny over a litany of failures that have left Britain’s water systems teaming with sewage.
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ActionSA Says City Of Cape Town Is “Killing Businesses And Jobs” By Not Addressing Marine Pollution
14 May 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
At least ActionSA is causing k*k in the right direction – at those in charge, not in the ocean.
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Strand Beachgoers Have Been Getting Severely Sick After Swimming, Calling For A Better Water-Quality Flag System
24 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While most of the beachgoers were aware that there were problems with the water quality at the time of swimming, they were unaware of the severity of the health risks they faced.
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Now The City Says Cape Town’s Popular Beaches Show “Excellent Water Quality” Ahead Of Summer
29 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Based on an independent analysis of water samples taken over the past seven weeks, the City of Cape Town has confirmed that our popular beaches received excellent water quality results ahead of the festive season.
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Water Treatment Expert Says Swimming At Cape Town Beaches Like “A Case Of Russian Roulette”
24 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Looks like you’ll be gambling your health with your swims this summer.
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City Of Cape Town Is Pumping More Sewage Into The Sea At Hout Bay Than They Are Allowed
20 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Is the City of Cape Town really allowing our oceans to become unswimmable and unliveable by pumping billions of litres of sewage into it?
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Cholera Has Been Detected In Part Of The Vaal River Now
26 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
This legacy of bad quality has turned into a humanitarian crisis, and it could become significantly worse if the government doesn’t get off its fat ass and fix things.
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Cape Town’s Beach Sewerage Discharge Will Now Kill Your Sperm As Well
30 Mar 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s no spreading your seeds so easily when the sea is shitty, that’s for sure.
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City of Cape Town’s Raw Sewage-To-Sea Pumping Plan Forgets About ‘Forever Chemicals’
23 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
While the City is probably doing its best under the circumstances, discharging sewage at three marine outfalls, two of them in Marine Protected Areas, is not acceptable.
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City Of Cape Town Hits Back: “Pumping Sewage Into The Sea Is Normal”
16 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
But not only does it make pretty places unbearably stinky, it also supposedly causes frequent bouts of ‘the tummy bug’ to go around, and those are not fun at all.
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Let’s Talk About The Sewerage Problem Wreaking Havoc At Cape Town’s Popular Swim Spots
13 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Quite a few beaches have been closed across the city over the past few months due to sewage spills, but the issue seems to be more prevalent than we think.
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Atlantic Seaboard Rock Mussels, Starfish And Seaweed Contaminated With Sewage And Pharmaceuticals
14 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Turns out there are a lot of chemicals accumulating on Cape Town’s coasts, and it’s affecting the local marine life.
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Sheep Heads, Ovens, Condoms – What’s Clogging Cape Town’s Sewers
24 Jul 2018 by Nereesha Patel / 2 Comments
Capetonians are throwing all sorts of questionable junk down into their sewers, causing a huge amount of blockages and overflows.
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A Depressing Update On Cape Town’s Massive Sewerage Problem
10 Jun 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Cape Town is beautiful, there’s no doubt about it – but our seas are still getting the brunt of our ugly side in the form of raw sewerage.
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Olympians Will Have To Swim Through Shit – Rio Can’t Clean Up Raw Sewerage In Time
25 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Congratulations on spending your entire life in the pursuit of athletic excellence – now get ready to compete in amongst Rio’s sewerage waste.
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UPDATE: Stinky-Stink – London Is Flooded With Sewerage Water [PICS + VIDEO]
28 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Swathes of central and south London spent the night marinating in kilolitres of sewerage. Mmm. Tasty. Kennington in Central London going underwater (sewage?!) right now: pic.twitter.com/VXB4Voxpo0 — Lewis Whyld (@LewisWhyld) February 27, 2014 ‘Sewage pouring into homes’ as burst water main causes flooding in #ClaphamRoad https://t.co/580iCf3GY6 pic.twitter.com/iFUEpvSW05 — Evening Standard (@standardnews) February 27, 2014 […]
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