Municipalities that do not address pollution of their water systems, or have not put in place plans to sort out the pollution, have been criminally charged by the Department of Water and Sanitation for breaching the National Water Act.
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Louis Thabethe, the mayor of Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton, said he had already started repairing the leaking sewerage plants polluting the Vaal River before the court fined the council an astronomical R70 million.
The Department of Water and Sanitation says it is working on several initiatives aimed at addressing the problem of pollution of rivers by municipal wastewater treatment works.
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