A network of organisations active in promoting the wise, equitable and just use, protection and provision of water in South Africa.💧
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Minister @LindiweSisuluSA, the South African Water Caucus hereby draws your attention to the growing plight of hundreds of townships and informal settlements across the country that remain w/o access to water and basic sanitation services during this global pandemic. A thread:
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Great thread from @LeanneGovinds about @CentreEnvRights litigation in Mthatha on behalf of rural communities in the Eastern Cape to compel municipalities to provide basic water & sanitation services @MasifundiseDT
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It’s unacceptable that Eastern Cape communities have been without a consistent water source since 2017. Government must intensify their efforts in providing communities with water! #SifunaAmanzi #WaterIsABasicRight
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Masifundise, together with Coastal Links Eastern Cape branch, coastal community organisation, filed an urgent application to be heard in Mthatha High Court against national Water and Sanitation Minister, the Eastern Cape Provincial Government and the other Water is basic right.
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It is a human right, a basic human right to have access to water. It is disheartening and aggravating that during the COVID pandemic, WATER as a basic human right is being mishandled by state in this way!
@sawatercaucus @WaterResearchSA @DWS_RSA @KznLegislature @GCIS_KZN
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The community of Izingolweni has been fighting to access to consistent running & clean tap water for several months. They have even resorted to using multiple forms of protest action, including burning buildings to get the attention of the relevant gov depts including the mayors
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Coal burning industries pollute water and dirty the air.
This is water pollution near the old Swartkops Power Station looking towards Kwazakhele township outside Gqeberha.
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WATER WEEK
Communities and activists demand urgent plans for water provision from Eastern Cape authorities, or face court action #SifunaAmanzi
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Ensuring safe and sufficient water is essential to protecting a wide range of human rights and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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#WorldWaterDay
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Tomorrow 22 March is #WorldWaterDay. We must all #ValueWater differently before it’s too late.
Join the global campaign to show the value of water everywhere.
Share a photo & sentence starting “I #ValueWater because….
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SA’s development, health and overall well-being depends on #water. We are a water-scarce country, with 22 Strategic Water Source Areas that supply water to all our urban centres, agricultural areas and support downstream economies and ecosystems. Read more bit.ly/MabolaH20
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"The Vaal river is “polluted beyond acceptable standards” because millions of litres of untreated sewage enter the crucial river system each day from broken wastewater treatment plants in the embattled Emfuleni local municipality" mg.co.za/environment/2021-02…
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Climate change is hitting South Africa hard and is being felt first through water impacts. Higher temperatures will mean that plants need more water, evaporation rates increase and algal blooms are more likely to make the water in dams unusable.bit.ly/Watersourceareas
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Water insecurity exacerbates public health issues like COVID-19, but the relationship is bidirectional- COVID's exacerbated water insecurity, too. How can we break this vicious cycle? Listen to experts weigh in: youtube.com/watch?v=px2gVr1Q…
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Human Rights Commission concludes that the situation in the Vaal constitutes a violation of multiple human rights over many years. An extraordinary failure of governance.
#VaalSewage Final Report of the Gauteng Provincial Inquiry Into the Sewage Problem of the Vaal River is available on our website sahrc.org.za/home/21/files/T…
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SAHRC: Lack of accountability is clear- Emfuleni says you can’t look at us, there are other municipalities polluting, @GDCoGTA says no you can’t look at us, and @DWS_RSA is saying we have given them funding but they’re squandering the money #Vaalsewage @mailandguardian
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The @DWS_RSA was invited to the #VaalSewage webinar hosted in partnership with @SAHRCommission, however they failed to respond. This speaks to the lack of accountability on behalf of the government to address this environmental crisis.
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#VaalSewage Final Report of the Gauteng Provincial Inquiry Into the Sewage Problem of the Vaal River is available on our website sahrc.org.za/home/21/files/T…
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#VaalSewage
Webinar: Final Report of the Gauteng Provincial
Inquiry Into the Sewage Problem
of the Vaal River LiveStream youtube.com/watch?v=nl1EoVzU…
South African Water Caucus retweeted
South Africa has 22 water source areas, situated in five provinces. Our water source areas are the source of most of our major river systems.
Read more on why we must protect these areas👉bit.ly/Watersourceareas