Cape Town’s Wesfleur Wastewater Treatment Works in Atlantis has achieved Gold Green Drop status, placing it among South ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has detected two polio virus strains (VDPV3 and nOPV2-L) in wastewater samples from a treatment plant in Cape Town, Western Cape. The NICD said ...

South African health authorities have sought to calm public fears after two different polio-related virus strains were detected in wastewater samples collected from a treatment plant in Cape Town, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urban water bodies – rivers, lakes and oceans – are in trouble globally. Large sewage volumes damage the open environment, and new ...

Cape Town’s sewage system has picked up traces of two polio-related virus strains, prompting increased monitoring from health authorities. However, officials say this is not the return of a polio ...

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has detected two polio virus strains in Cape Town's wastewater treatment plant.

Urban water bodies – rivers, lakes and oceans – are in trouble globally. Large sewage volumes damage the open environment, and new chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds don’t break down on their own.