If any of you saw Carte Blanche last weekend, you
will know all about the huge sewage outfall problem in Table Bay, Mouille Point
and other points round our coastline. The city puts all the city and Atlantic
seaboard sewage out into the ocean.
This also happens in other areas like Hout Bay. Besides the smell, the toxic
chemicals, medicines, dangerous bacteria and microbes in the sewage are really
causing major problems and could be a serious disease and long term health
hazard for all
This photograph © Carte Blanche
A lovely stay in the
area recently was marred by the awful stench of sewage. We didn't write about it
then, as it was not the fault of the venue and we didn't want to lose them
business, but now that it is out in the open, we do hope that the people of
Cape Town will rise as one and demand a solution to this dangerous problem from
the Council, the Province and the Government. We need an efficient land-based
sewage plant; we have to stop polluting our ocean and our beaches with millions
of litres of sewage pumped into the bay. They have always ducked this, saying
it is too expensive. The population of Cape Town continues to grow enormously
as people from other countries and provinces flood in. How expensive is our
health, loss of tourism income and our marine life, on which many people depend? See
sense, no sea sewage. Please.
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