When entitlement & hubris meets incompetence, unintended consequences such as harm to human health & damage to ecosystems follow in their footsteps:

An eye-rolling & yaw-dropping 🧵 about the case of of the botched 'handling' of water lettuce (#waterslaai) in the #VaalRiver.
1/ Water lettuce (𝑃𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠) is a perrenial, mat-forming, free-floating aquatic plant, native to South America. Each plant consist of a rosette of leaves (<150-200 mm in diameter) with a tuft of long, fibrous roots, resembling floating lettuces.
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There seems to be a lot of misinformation and miscommunication regarding the #CholeraOutbreak in #Hammanskraal, so here is a short 🧵 to help clarify some things.

Buckle up & lets talk about 💧 and 👥 and 💩
1/ The World Health Organisation (WHO) identifies diarrhoeal disease as the leading cause of death in developing countries. In 🇿🇦, more than 50,000 people die annually as a result of diarrhoeal diseases, and it is one of the major causes of infant deaths in our country.
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Look, I have entertained myself today with the racists, but we as Afrikaners have to understand a few things loud and clear if we want a better future for the children of 🇿🇦:
🧵 1) We live in Africa - if you think that you are "special" because of the LACK of melanin in your DNA, then move to 🇷🇺, please.
2) If you want to make a future for yourself and your family in 🇿🇦, then start EDUCATING yourself on the history of your own damn country

The #Jagersfontein disaster is far from over: The spill demolished the Sewage Works, and all sewage is currently flowing untreated into the stream, together with the tailings - it has already gone down the stream quite a bit, and will soon reach... /2 the Kalkfontein Dam, which is a source of water supply of a number of towns in the area, including Jagersfontein and Fauresmith.

Urgent action is needed, this week still, as the raw sewage is creating a health risk for everyone, and the lack of water supply will... /3

How does a tailings dam fail
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wise-uranium.org/img/mdfs.gif Tailings dam failure
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