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SA: Zululand’s rivers are open sewers: typhoid, e-coli warnings issued

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Original Post Date: 2008-02-03 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Adriana

Sies Boere! Daar dryf al hoe meer drolle in Zululand se riviere…

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KwaZulu-Natal’s rivers are being described as little more than open sewers.
That big money-spinning event the Duzi Canoe Marathon had many athletes come down with serious stomach ailments this year due to the huge E-coli levels in the river water.

Durban scientists say ‘several rivers’ have been polluted with such dangerously high bacteria levels, from burst sewer lines and illegal dumping, that children are also developing skin diseases from swimming in the polluted water. Durban municipality is considerating ‘incarcerating’ the ‘sewage’ in the water — try and picture that one, folks!

Scientists are monitoring river systems around the province and stern warnings especially of TYPHOID, are now being issued.

Scientist Mark Graham says the ‘bugs’ found in some of the rivers mean that the province’s residents are running the very real risk of contracting human typhoid from the river-water.

Graham’s report says ‘water quality was found to be poorer within the city than on its outskirts.’

Many canoests – local and international — also came down with ‘stomach bugs’ during the recent world-famous international Dusi Canoe Marathon this year.

Advance warnings had been issued by local environmentalists to stay away — but the marathon organisers decided to go ahead with it anyway and foreign participants in particular, not forewarned, had come down with massive cases of ‘Dusiguts” last month…

Now they say, the huge money-spinner ‘might just have to be called off altogether in future, ‘if the E.coli levels are found to be too high.”

Durban city says it is ‘looking to incinerate some of the sewage in the water…
They also want to ‘refurbish old infrastructure as possible solutions to the problem….”

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