The situation is frightening, says an anonymous source who used to work at the department of water and sanitation
The plant’s closure means that a tide of toxic mine water is rising significantly underground, which could decant into the environment within months
Levels at a treatment plant in Springs have now breached a critical environmental threshold
Broken abstraction pumps at the Eastern basin treatment plant mean that water supply may become contaminated, posing a serious threat
One month after her appointment, the new director general of water affairs and forestry, Pam Yako has come out fighting — promising she will target water-guzzling operators, including in the mining and forestry industries, in an attempt to prevent water becoming as critically threatened a resource as energy.