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.
Is the City of Cape Town really allowing our oceans to become unswimmable and unliveable by pumping billions of litres of sewage into it?
There’s no spreading your seeds so easily when the sea is shitty, that’s for sure.
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.
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.
Capetonians are throwing all sorts of questionable junk down into their sewers, causing a huge amount of blockages and overflows.
It’s about time us humans start looking after our planet a bit better. I know some of us are trying, and it doesn’t come cheap, but at this rate we’re going to have nothing left.
A shitstorm is brewing, quite literally, on the Atlantic Seaboard as Bakoven residents find themselves up in arms about a recent sewerage leak. It’s so bad now that even the NSRI refuse to train! Warning: following this link will take you to a report which includes an uncensored version of this article’s main photo. Sis!