The Drowning of a Municipality!

After months of waiting for the Chief Albert Luthuli municipality to fix the Carolina water crisis the community finally got together with some human rights lawyers and won a case against the municipality in which the municipality was given 72 hours to fix the water problem.

So, the Minister of Water Affairs announced that the water was fine to drink last night. As the community ran to their tapes to find out whether the news was true they were met with empty taps and no running water.

This morning when they ran their taps this is what they found:

Does this water look healthy to you?

My mum is a councillor for the municipality and when I asked what had happened she merely said that instead of fixing the problem they decided to declare the water healthy in order to buy time.

The water was declared unfit for human consumption in January and has been that way ever since. It seems that the biggest problem is that there are too many heavy metals in the water. This is most likely caused by all the mining in the area.

The problem has been publicized in various newspapers as well as on Carte Blanche and yet the problem has still not been fixed.

Currently the people of Carolina depend on water being supplied in tankers by farmers who have borehole water and are therefore unaffected. Many people have to walk miles to get to the water stations and then have to carry it back to their homes.

This is NOT the answer!

This is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with by people who actually have the community's best interests at heart and not by a bunch of egotistical councillors who attend meetings once a week while quietly pocketing the municipalities budget.