[TOP STORY] Cape Town’s sewage crisis poses growing threat to health and coastlines

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‘They're collecting sewage all the way from Salt River to around Hout Bay that is just simply macerated and pumped out to sea, completely raw, untreated and unfortunately that affects our Blue Flag beaches,’ says Professor Leslie Petrik of the University of the Western Cape.
6 Jan 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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