The Environment and Conservation Association said in a statement on Tuesday that it was estimated that in five years, almost 80 percent of the country's fresh water resources would be so badly polluted that no process of purification available in the country would be able to clean it sufficiently to make it fit for human or animal consumption.
"If we do not find a completely new source of water altogether in about two years, most of Gauteng will be without safe health drinking water."
The impending disaster that would be created by acid mine drainage as well as sewerage and industrial pollution had on many occasions been brought to the attention of the government, however with no positive results, the association said.
The association would embark on a massive water monitoring project where it would roll out water testing and monitoring in the six major water catchments in Gauteng and Limpopo, to produce independent and accurate results of exactly how bad the country's water was.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article680530.ece/Water-crisis-mounting
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