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From loadshedding to watershedding: mitigating the challenges
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From Loadshedding to Watershedding: Mitigating the Challenges

South Africa stands on a precipice in terms of its ability to deliver energy and clean water to communities and industry. Crumbling infrastructure, a lack of skills, poor maintenance practices and ongoing knock-on effects of loadshedding have created a perfect storm where the quality and supply of clean water to end-users continue to deteriorate resulting in impacts that range from economic, as a result of reduced production by industries reliant on water and wastewater/sewage treatment, and environmental, where untreated sewage effluent is introduced into delicate ecosystems, to societal where the health and welfare of entire communities are threatened by a lack of clean water and proper sewage treatment.

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