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Raw Sewage flowing into the Umzimkulu from Pump Station 6 again on 11 June 2024 at 11AM
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Welcome to another Water Woes video...
Raw Sewage flowing into the Umzimkulu from Pump Station 6 on 11 June 2024 at 11 AM.
This particular pump station recurring nightmare has been playing out for decades now. So many UGU and/or RNM people and nobody can fix or explain the problem. And why it keeps coming back after it gets worked on.
This video is being logged as evidence for the future and is being referred to the Auditor General as they do their job of sniffing this kind of thing out. The Auditor General was here recently, and he now knows everything.
However, please keep up the video submissions as they are really helping the Auditor General to understand the extent of the problem. From the sewage running into the Umzimkulu. To the poor people carrying water home with them in the taxi every day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I_014wR1do
Welcome to another Water Woes video...
Raw Sewage flowing into the Umzimkulu from Pump Station 6 on 11 June 2024 at 11 AM.
This particular pump station recurring nightmare has been playing out for decades now. So many UGU and/or RNM people and nobody can fix or explain the problem. And why it keeps coming back after it gets worked on.
This video is being logged as evidence for the future and is being referred to the Auditor General as they do their job of sniffing this kind of thing out. The Auditor General was here recently, and he now knows everything.
However, please keep up the video submissions as they are really helping the Auditor General to understand the extent of the problem. From the sewage running into the Umzimkulu. To the poor people carrying water home with them in the taxi every day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I_014wR1do
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Welcome to another Water Woes video...
Understanding the UGU Water Crisis with Professor Anthony Turton
In my professional opinion, Ugu is on the brink of systemic collapse. The issue is complex. At present we are receiving only 16% Service Delivery. I have been monitoring daily now for some months and have enough data to do analytics on. That 16% means that for 16 days out of 100 we receive water at the required pressure. This is an important distinction to make, because about 50% of the time we do have some water, but pressure is too low to enable delivery across a topography characterised by undulating terrain. For about 25% of the time we have no water at all. This is likely to be representative of most of the Ugu area of supply, but it will vary depending on sub-system architecture.
What is evident from the data I have captured, is that as soon as system pressure goes above 3 Bar, we can anticipate failure shortly thereafter. This pattern is now evident in the data and the more I capture, the stronger that signal is likely to be.
This being the case, it speaks to a degraded infrastructure with two possible reasons for this regular oscillation between total system crash and subsequent recovery.
Reason A is that the system is now so broken, that we have multiple points of failure, so it's simply unable to be pressurised to anything beyond 3 Bar (as measured from my point of data capture, which is 50 metres above the pipeline at Batstone Drift). That would translate to 8 bar at Batstone.
Reason B is that deliberate sabotage is taking place, probably organised by a syndicate connected to the tender process for the procurement of tanker delivery services. This needs to be fully investigated and is beyond my capacity as an individual, but it is consistent with what is known to be happening in different jurisdictions. For example, we know of a criminal syndicate sabotaging infrastructure in a different province, and we know that this is a multi million Rand business. We also know from forensic work that has been conducted in a major metro, that the capture of the supply chain in a water service provider, has been ongoing since 2001. We can safely conclude that criminal syndicates are nested into different parts of the procurement process, in different municipalities, all harvesting revenues from degraded infrastructure.
Both these reasons are serious, demanding a precise investigation by a competent and credible authority. Unless we do this, we will continue to experience systemic failure to the point where commercial activities will cease to be viable.
I therefore place this information out there, urging a Chamber of Commerce to take this matter up as a matter of priority.
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Alleged Sabotage of Hibberdene water supply in Pumula 17 September 2022 HD
The sources of these clips understandably wish to stay anonymous for now.
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Welcome to another Water Woes video...
In this episode of Water Woes UGU, Professor Anthony Turton clarifies the law and how it pertains to UGU and the recent questionable activity and proposed activity, on the Umzimkulu River.
The Green Net took Professor Turton to the scene of the time when one of the controversial and mightily expensive berms were being built. Millions of taxpayer Rands spent by UGU on completely ineffective and highly destructive temporary berms.
Section 21 of the National Water Act explicitly defines that any unlicensed alteration of the bed, bank or flow of a river in South Africa, is a criminal act.
And now, UGU is planning to spend more millions and in fact billions of Rands, on this folly. To prevent salt ingression. Which never happens. And any salt levels recorded at St. Helens Pump Station were most likely from urine and faeces, delivered directly from upriver Harding anyway.
The sewage system, under the direct control of UGU, in Harding, has collapsed. The sewage works are inoperable. As are the pump stations that move the sewage. And so all the sewage ends up in the farmer's dam. Rendering it unusable whilst, in town, even the hospital goes without water for weeks.
We will keep recording the activities of UGU, right here, for use as evidence in the future. Please submit your Water Woes videos with commentary to us on uguaction@independenceca.org. So that it also may be logged for future use.
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We are joined by Professor Anthony Turton as he unpacks the sovereign state of the Umzimkulu River and estuary. As the last free-flowing river of any significance in South Africa.
The natural flood pulses of the Umzimkulu and its main tributary - the Umzimkulwana, meet the tidal pulse of the ocean. It is in these briny waters that all the action takes place. Biological triggers set off natural mechanisms and processes that affect the well-being of our hatchlings and other organisms that use these waters to breed and spawn in.
This vital interaction between these forces of nature needs to be protected at al costs. The system feeds into the ocean system and it's myriad of species and organisms that rely on it.
Bearing in mind that this river is the last one that can still function in the face of reckless farming practices leading to erosion. Which has been going on for over a century. Cash crops and livestock have obliterated the indigenous coastal forest that once could stand up to the seasonal flooding this region experiences.
Thank you Professor Turton!
More at thesardine.co.za.
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Why do coastal towns have far cleaner water than big cities: It’s a Catch22 for residents and businesses down here on the KZN south coast. We need the annual tourist influx to keep this whole show going. Without this revenue stream (stolen by Covid pundits), it’s been really difficult.
But, the same as every other ANC-run municipality in this country, ours have failed us miserably. And raw sewage pumps into the ocean with every single load-shedding session. When the power goes, the pumps turn off, and the sewage still flowing, bursts out of the system. And into the ocean.
However, as Professor Anthony Turton explains in this video, is that coastal cities have no centralised sewage plants the scale of anything near a big city like Durban. And most of us down here on the slow coast, have septic tanks which we manage ourselves. No government required and therefore no failures.
So the amount of sewage available down south is a tiny percentage of that which Durban dumps daily.
That is not to say that all beaches here are safe. Some of our most beautiful secrets, like Ski-Boat Bay in Ramsgate, have a sewage problem right now. Uvongo estuary is also a hotbed for sewage. Many people getting sick on holiday.
This is the reason for the existence of the Water Woes Chanel. To log the problems and complaints. And to follow up on results. It is being run in conjunction with our local UGU Class Action Group who are using these logs for evidence too.
Please look out for Tony’s next video – a real cool interview of Tony by Ilze van der Merwe and the Green Net.
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“When looking at the human population growth trajectory over the last hundred of thousands of years we are taken by two very important facts. The first is that the human growth population trajectory was very flat until the Industrial Revolution. Once the Industrial Revolution happened it literally unleashed a series of technological possibilities and processes. That propelled the human population into very rapid growth.
But this was accelerated by the second factor in the 1960s when antibiotics became commonplace. Prior to that antibiotics were only discovered between the first and second world wars and they were mainstream during WWII. They became publicly accessible on a wide scale only in the 1960s. And once we had antibiotics of course then human life was less at risk. Because ordinary infections that would normally have killed people, could now be brought under control. At a very very early stage. And that propelled human population growth into an exponential trajectory.
However on the wastewater side what we also need to remember is that all drugs that are taken including your antibiotics, but also antiretrovirals and antidepressants, hormone replacement medications such as estrogen – all of that comes back in the return flow in rivers and its only because of the Industrial Revolution that we now have massive amounts of sewage return flows that all go back into our rivers and eventually accumulate in the estuaries. And those sewage return flows are laden with
antibiotics.
with antiretrovirals.
with oestrogen and oestrogen mimikers.
with a range of other medications
All of which are now starting to generate the next generation of multi-drug-resistant pathogens.
So it’s not inconceivable that in the very near future we go to start seeing things come out of our estuaries in particular. Where we get drug-resistant pathogens and we starting to see early evidence of that now in the form of something known as Necrotizing Fasciitis which is the most technical word for flesh-eating bacteria.
And we start to see this happen in our oceans and we already had some cases in the Umhlanga Rocks area. We are also starting to see it in our lagoons. We’ve had one or two cases in the lagoon areas. And we also see it inland in some of our rivers. We’ve had a few cases now in the Vaal River system.
And in all cases, these bacteria survive in saline water that gets contaminated by sewage and of course these bacteria these pathogens are now proliferating in the presence of antiretroviral and antibiotics so they are becoming multidrug-resistant. This is a huge problem that we are going t have to start setting our sights on – over the next decade.
Because this is the timeline that it’s likely to hit us.”
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This video first featured as a segment on The Sardine News last year sometime. Professor Turton was kind enough to record this explainer, which we put some of our video libraries to.
It unpacks the reasons why fish die en masse as they do here in KZN, South Africa.
It's from sewage.
Raw sewage being poured directly into our rivers and estuaries, as the current and useless government completely fail. On so many levels corruption and greed have ripped the country's once famously up-to-date infrastructure to pieces.
The roads are unkempt. Sewage flows with every rain or power outage. Water is stolen and sold to the unassuming public. Cover-up the looting is the name of the game. This happens all the time and all over the place.
And it's the poor and helpless who take it squarely on the head.
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Welcome to another Water Woes video...here we have a concerned resident in Port Edward, doing everything right.
A simple recording with some narration to provide context is the formula that was followed here. To produce an effective video log of the occurrence.
Where. What. How. Why. When. Who. If you can incorporate this information into your productions, we can start to log and make sense of what is going on with the UGU people. And all their flash new vans and bakkies...
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Welcome to another Water Woes video...
UGU struggling to work out how Harding sewage pollution affects everyone in UGU: and it’s happening again. The farmer’s dam in Harding has become eutrophic. This contaminated water flows straight into the Umzimkulu. Exactly where UGU drinking water comes from. In fact, it is barely 100 meters from the extraction plant at St. Helens Rock, where the confluence of these two rivers is situated.
Professor Turton has become alarmed at Mr. Bertie Strydoms video and observations. In a time where the state has failed so badly, that cholera is a buzzword, we, the residents of UGU and KZN, best take notice of this dire situation.
From Mr. Bertie Strydom himself…
I just been reading up on the situation with this green water. With all the manure from the 600 or so herd of cattle that are kraaled just above the farmer's dam and all the sewerage that is collected from the town, this I feel has contributed to this effect that is going on in the river. Over the years all of the above has been stored in the dam. Naturally this has been ideal for the rapid growth of plant life in the many pools of water in the river system. Just below the sewerage plan this has been very noticeable. The farmers dam is now full and the spillway run off has dumped millions of litters of water into the river. Needless to say the municipality has allowed this to happen as they have allowed cows to live alongside humans in town. Ugu has also contributed by dumping their waste water into the river by way of fresh sewerage. From what I have observed the smell is carbon monoxide —- sulphur smell. This water will come with e ‘coli in very large amount as all the bacteria is formed from the dead plants. I might be wrong !!!. Surely if the cattle and the sewerage or manure were not there this wouldn’t happen. As far as fertilizers it’s a no as most of if not all that is growing within the catchment area of the dam is forest plantations of mainly gum tree. So my thing is fix the sewerage spills get rid of the 600 cows from the catchment area problem solved. Knowing Ugu and umuziwabantu municipality this is a never ending story. It’s sad by a reality. The only way forward is to fight tooth and nail before sickness and an outbreak of some kak hits us. Just remember Ugu feeds the same shit water to the people at the coast by way of pumping it from the umzimkulu river ??????????????????
Bertie Strydom, Harding
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Never mind the tourism anymore. Who cares if our visitors get sick? And have flesh rotting disease from UGU water? UGU and the ANC certainly don’t give a damn. Shown clearly by the way they have left the country’s infrastructure to rot. And taken all that money that was supposed to maintain it.
From The Sardine News – Nature’s Mouthpiece. Against man’s propensity to commit menticide and destroy their very own living place.
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