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Additional funding is needed to improve South Africa’s water supply – CSIR

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is calling for more funding to be directed to water research and the development of technologies to improve South African municipalities’ wastewater-treatment processes and maintenance, and to build new treatment plants.

The deteriorating quality of raw water, coupled with current water shortages, has created an urgent need to protect the country’s water resources and ensure effective water

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