Our people are dying due to a lack of clean drinking water. It’s time for change.
Minister of Water and sanitation Senzo Mchunu stated on 19 Feb 2022:
“It is a sin that people have no access to water and have to drink from the same streams along animals.“
Getrude Makhafola, The Citizenity
“On the 23rd of February 2022 Buffulo City Municipality advice people to boil water before drinking.”
Andisa Bonani, Daily DispatchÂ
80% of all illnesses in Africa comes from waterborne diseases.
Every 15 seconds a child dies due to a waterborne disease. By this time tomorrow 2500 children will be dead.
“Child dies of E.coli infection in Nelson Mandela Bay – Major advices residents to add bleach to water.“
Daily Maverick, 23 Feb 2022
Due to lack of infrastructure thousand of households in rural areas in South Africa do not have access to clean drinking water.
