Today the sevens of February 2017 Rietspruit Water Forum met and different water quality report where present to stakeholder by Emfuleni Municipality, Rand Water, Gauteng Department of Agriculture Rural Development, as usual big corporations and mining companies that continued to pollute VAAL River failed to pitch and present their water report as their the biggest user at the Vaal River System.Department of water and sanitation show little concern of how Vaal River is being polluted by local municipalities failed water treatment works, and the reports show that there is no improvement in rivers and streams such as E.cole and Phosphate, these means that the Vaal River is highly polluted and these is putting millions of people that use Vaal River at risk.
Department of water and sanitation is under pressure from civil society and community activist, officials explained that the situation is unacceptable and steps needed to be taken but the is no clear plan as how to rectify the situation on the ground as how sewage is spilling from all side of the Vaal Triangle and lack of enforcement has created the lawlessness and every one can pollute water resources without any punishment.
If Rietspruit and other catchment water forums need to be successful, there is a need for the DWS to take action and win confident of civil society to make sure that polluters are been dealt with especially big corporations and failing sewage infrastructure in the Vaal Triangle and South Africa as a whole.
