Cholera Threat Haunts Francistown Residents

26 February, 2009 in Botswana

source: The Botswana Gazette
Written by Botswana Gazette online
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:00

Residents in Francistown city and other areas serviced from the Shashe Dam could be drinking sewerage water. Over the past week, drains carrying effluent at Mambo Water Treatment Works burst, spilling refuge into water streams running directly into the flowing Tati river.

Tati River is among the rivers that flow into the Shashe Dam – a dam already confirmed as carrying samples of vaebro cholerae bacterium as reported by the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC).

When asked if the City Council was aware that rainwater was carrying waste into Tati River, the senior public relations officer (PRO) at the Francistown City Council, Pricilla Golubane, said she would confirm with the relevant department. However, Golubane, who was not aware of the spilling drains, explained that “If the report is true then it is a very bad thing. You can imagine what can happen if people were to drink infected water.”
It took the city council over four days to finally attend to [continue reading]

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