'Government has dealt with acid mine drainage and yielded results’

18 May 2016 - 17:56
By Roxanne Henderson

Minister for Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane says short-term acid mine drainage interventions the government has started in the past five years have yielded results. Speaking at an acid mine drainage plant in Germiston on Wednesday she said South Africans have benefited from the government's projects in four ways:1) The prevention of an environmental catastrophe:"If we had not intervened in the way we did‚ the flow of acid mine drainage into the larger environment‚ including the natural...

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