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The latest E coli readings for several Durban beaches, published by water treatment specialist company Talbot, reflects a vast improvement in the beach water (Peter Titmuss/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
BEACHES

Durban paddlers, lawyers take on eThekwini metro over sewage crisis

The Northern wastewater treatment works disgorges sewage into the Umgeni River, which flows into the sea at Durban, polluting the city’s popular beaches

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
Polluted: The Willowton oil spill caused fish to die from a lack of oxygen. (Rogan Ward)
AIR POLLUTION

Rivers die after oil, chemical spill

A disastrous oil and chemical spill at Willowton Oils in Pietermaritzburg has devastated the Msunduzi and Umgeni and harmed those who depend on it

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read