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Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Horrific Water-Pollution In The Hartbeespoortdam In South Africa


He warned that ‘South Africa was facing very rapid socio-economic collapse due to the heavily polluted South African fresh-water resources.” He warned that its very scarce  rivers and streams were becoming increasingly clogged and difficult to clean because of the mountains of mostly plastic and chemical waste constantly being dumped into them – and even worse, that  the water was becoming so polluted with human faeces that the annual rainfall was unable to wash it all away. Semi-arid South Africa ‘s less than 450mm annual rainfall is not enough to clean up the mess.

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