Pierre Villecourt's Adventures: Check out my blog
2009-01-02Riverside Centre's Adventures:
2009-01-02Lane De Meulenaere's Adventures: My first blog
2008-12-23This is my first blog cool, now I can say everything I want
SilverBullet's adventures: SR Standard Full Face and Custom Graphics!
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Morne Botha's Adventures: To paddle in dirty water or not?
2008-12-12Pollution here in Guateng, South Africa is BIG... The Emfuleni munisipality, which is in control of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging, both of which is situated on the banks of the Vaal river is being taken to court for dumping sewage in the vaal river.
Although they are situated about 60km upsteam from the bussiest stretch of river in South Africa, including Gatsien, I still wonder... How clean is the water here really? Sure there is a fair amount of biological filtering, but in how much of someone elses poop are we still paddling?
The commercial rafting companies and guides still goes on with their job, even though there is alot of warnings from different organization. Me and everybody I know still paddles each day, and nobody is in the sickbed yet but how long are we still going to be this lucky. Zimbabwe, is full of cholera and other water born diseases and even some of our upper rivers are becoming more unsafe daily. I wish there was a test to determine before you go out for a paddle, just how dirty the water really is.
I have found some info on the following sites, and if you have anything that I can add please let me know, because knowledge is power..
http://www.save.org.za/index.html

