#ugu #rnm #ugucommunityalliance UGU taking responsibility for the water situation in Harding 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 Tourism 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-C9J30VqE

Thank you to Charmaine for submitting this - the very first Water Woes video to be uploaded. Sewage freely making its stinking way from the Ramsgate sewage pump station, which was not operational this day. And so the overflow goes straight down the dune and into the shorebreak. Where people and fish swim. A bigger thank you to Memory who has been the driving force behind turning all these videos into vlogs. Which can be used to leave a shit trail for investigators to follow for when it finally comes time to start prosecuting. So please submit any and all video evidence of sewage or other water related abuses by your municipality in South Africa. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzJFONBIjus

#ugu #rnm #ugucommunityalliance 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. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HaSueDBNtY

Part 2 chasing sewage from Harding to Port Shepstone Mr Bertie Strydom took the time and effort to shoot some more pertinent video concerning the Harding sewage fiasco. This time he takes us down to the Farmers Dam, just west and down the valley from Harding. Here we are shown the sewage as it flows and flows all days and every day, into this holding dam. Which is now useless except as a threat to the people down river from Harding. Including... Port Shepstone Yip, Port Shepstones drinking water comes from the self same river as it joins the Umzimkulu. Barely a few hundred metres from the confluence, we abstract water for drinking. And just after that is the site of a proposed new dam by UGU. That will permanently interfere with the flood and tide pulses. Rendering the river as useless as all KZN's other dam impeded rivers. The Umzimkulu River is the last free-flowing river left in KZN. And therefore it performs the biological functions of all the 100 or so rivers that we have destroyed with agriculture for profit. Instead of growing our own food, we all get in a car, burn gas and go shopping!? Port Shepstone has a dire water security problem as profit-driven entities propose all sorts of incorrect and irrelevant solutions to the Eskom and load-shedding problem, the leaks everywhere, and the sewage in the river. Port Shepstone just needs an effective government munipality staffed with honest and hard-working people. Who appreciate their job salaries and subsidies. And who take pride in their work. Trump was right when he said Africa was a toilet. 100% in fact. More at https://thesardine.co.za ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWF7wRD7P4