Carolina residents go to court over water
Business Day says angry residents of Carolina in Mpumalanga have resorted to the courts in an attempt to force the local government to provide them with clean drinking water.
The town has been without potable water since January when mine seepage polluted the local dam.
Papers before the court say that some of Carolina's 17 000 residents had to drink acid mine water. In a bid to resolve the problem Carolina's water affairs department supplied about 20 trucks to ferry clean drinking water to residents.
However, community members set those trucks on fire.
The Carolina municipality then set up 12 tanks to hold drinking water but when inspected only two of the tanks had water and the rest were dry.
The Department of Water Affairs has not commented on the legal bid or on the water supply problems in Carolina.
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