LEAD SA is a great campaign - and you can be instrumental by planting your own vegetables.   Sounds like a dubious way to lead the nation, but it will improve your health and by leading the trend, the health of those around you.  

How is this happening?  Well increasingly more contaminated water is entering our rivers and dams from  sewerage treatment plants which are  dysfunctional as well as from informal settlements.  This water is then no longer suitable for human consumption or irrigation - toxins enter the plants and then in turn the humans eating those plants.  Many animals are already dying from drinking this toxic water.

“Animals in the Kruger National Park and ecosystems across the country are under threat. Tourism is compromised by the eutrophication of rivers and dams. Water treatment costs are escalating due to poor raw water quality.

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