Apiesrivier water quality/Rooiwal Sewage works

I believe that the treatment facilities at the Rooiwal Sewerage Treatment Plant are no longer efficient or in a workable state and that the failure of the Tshwane Metropolitan Council to reinstate the treatment works to a safe, efficient and operating condition is responsible for the current situation

The bad smell, flies, ect is getting worse by the day. The water is not good for farming. We had great loses of crops that was damaged as a resualt of contaminated water.

This simply has to be managed by those responsible.

The water from the river tested as not good for human consumption in 2006 already. Nothing real has been done about the situation. We all know there is fecal matter in the water. We therefor assume that ecoli forms and maybe even cholera. We need to make use of the water for our farming operations, animals, feeds, vegetables and fruits..... How can the products produced be consumed? Those of us lucky enough to have boreholes are now also worried that the contamination/ seepage of the river and sewerage plant could contaminate this our only drinkable water sources.

Yes we could put in place systems to purify our water, but in order to be able to use the water for agricultural production of vegetables and other food products, the systems that would need to be put in place, to still comply with GLOBALG.A.P. Food safety regulations, and be able to feed our nation the costs could run from just over 3/4 of a million to far over a million rands.

I am extremely concerned that our municipality is not heeding the disaster of great proportions that has been warned of many times. Our safety, including safe water as basic human right is enshrined in our constitution and this is being ignored criminally.
The pathogenic content has Ben proven many times. What has not been said is that when the so called E. Coli test is noted as positive, it refers to the fact that fecal content , including life threatening bacteria such Vibrio cholera (yes that one!), Listeria spp and others would in all likelihood also be in the water, potentially causing life threatening outbreaks of diseases to our communities. Our overstretched health system will not be able to handle this. how many babies have already died from diarrhoea and other diseases that could be ascribed to our water.?