Water Pollution In South Africa Statistics

Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwater units.

Water pollution in south africa statistics. The south african minister of water and sanitation gugile nkwitini has revealed that water pollution poses the single biggest threat to the country s water security and quality. Households in the western cape are most likely to have access to piped water while those in limpopo and the eastern cape are the least likely to have access to piped water. And this makes the states unable to keep the water clean or readily available to its citizens. Unluckily only 10 of the entire africa populations get to enjoy this water leading to unequal distribution of water and acute water shortages across the planet.

By 2025 half of the world s population will be living in water stressed areas. The water pollution in south africa has affected water quality and impacted negatively on public health and functioning of ecosystems including the rising cost of water treatment. The report suggests that the primary sources of water pollution are untreated or partially treated effluents from municipal industrial and mining wastewater discharges. Media release 30 march 2017 quarterly financial statistics of municipalities december 2016 according to the latest quarterly financial statistics of municipalities released by statistics south africa stats sa today purchases of water by south african municipalities decreased by 1 8 between the quarters ended.

Rika du plessis acting chief director health and vital statistics 012 310 2913. 30 of the continent water is found in the congo basin. Statistics south africa s 2016 general household survey estimates 88 8 of south african households had access to piped water compared to 81 2 in 1996. Mortality causes of death perinatal deaths in south africa living conditions survey lcs thematic health report south africa demographic and health survey.

Metric tons of bod emissions per cubic km of water units. Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 502 000 diarrhoeal deaths each year. The water pollution in south africa has affected water quality and impacted negatively on public health and functioning of ecosystems including the rising cost of water treatment. This is a standard water treatment test for the presence of organic.

The report suggests that the primary sources of water pollution are untreated or partially treated effluents from municipal industrial and mining wastewater discharges. Water freshwater pollution. In south africa the scarce fresh water is decreasing in quality because of an increase in pollution and the destruction of river catchments caused by urbanisation deforestation damming of rivers destruction of wetlands industry mining agriculture energy use and accidental water pollution. The abundance of informal settlements that have been established along south africa s rivers is a major contributor to this pollution due to the lack of formalised waste management services at these communities.

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