The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation·

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

Victor Munik¹  Morne Viljoen²  Johann Tempelhoff³ 

[1] Independent researcher;Legal advisor for Mittal Steel;North-West University;

关键词: Vaal River Barrage, Rand Water, water pollution, wastewater treatment, river catchment forums, industrial development, water infrastructure, water management;   

DOI  :  10.4102/td.v3i1.322

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth century there have been increasing indications of water pollution threatening the storage facility of the Vaal River Barrage, built by the water utility, Rand Water, at the start of the twentieth century. Currently, as a result of a variety of factors, untreated wastewater is posing a severe environmental threat in the Vaal River Barrage Catchment area. In the article attention is given to the origins of pollution and recent events that had the effect of mobilising grassroots anger in civil society with the state of affairs. The article forms part of a transdisciplinary research project that is currently conducted at North-West University’s Vaal Triangle campus in Vanderbijlpark.

【 授权许可】

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