VEREENIGING - Rand Water says the drinking water supplied from the Zuikerbosch Water Treatment Plant in Vereeniging is safe for human consumption. This is in response to an online article published by an online publication titled “Don’t drink the water! High levels of E. coli are still found in these parts of the Vaal River”. Rand Water’s spokesperson, Makenosi Maroo, says the article is full of inconsistencies. She adds that the Zuikerbosch Water Treatment Plant (WTP) abstracts raw water from the Vaal Dam and not the Vaal River Barrage. The raw water goes through vigorous treatment processes at the Zuikerbosch WTP to produce potable drinking water that complies to the requirements of the South African National Standard for Drinking Water. The water quality data from the Zuikerbosch WTP complies with all the SANS 241: 2015 requirements which, amongst others, state that “E. coli should not be detected in drinking water”. Maroo said Rand Water maintains an intensive water quality monitoring programme that in terms of microbiology, includes testing for E. coli, as well as protozoan parasites and viruses. She said the drinking water supplied by Rand Water from the Zuikerbosch WTP complies with the requirements for all these microbiological organisms. Rand Water confirmed that the drinking water supplied from Zuikerbosch WTP is safe for human consumption.
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