Close to half of South Africa’s drinking water is not safe for consumption.
This was revealed by the national Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) during a presentation of the full Blue Drop Report on Tuesday – which assessed the state of all drinking water systems in the country.
The report found that 46% of water quality tests carried out by municipalities between 2021 and 2022 – ranked poor in microbiological water quality compliance.
The quest for better living conditions for all South Africans has suffered a major setback after the government’s Blue Drop Report revealed almost half of the drinking water in the country is of poor quality.
DWS director-general Dr Sean Phillips says there has been a major decline in water quality since in the past decade.
“That 46% poor or bad microbiological water quality compliance was only 5% in 2014, which indicates that there has been a severe regression on a national basis in terms of drinking water quality between 2014 and 2023.”
The presentation by Phillips showed that almost 90% of the drinking water in the Northern Cape was of poor or bad quality.
Gauteng scored the highest percentage of drinking water systems with excellent or good performance of 62%, followed by Western Cape at 50%.
-EWN
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