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Save the Vaal Environment (SAVE)

HQ 🇿🇦 South Africa · 1 project tracked

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Latest from Save the Vaal Environment (SAVE)

📰 Update · Aug 20

Save Golf Tournament Rules And Sponsors

📰 Update · Aug 11

CHAIRMAN’ S STATEMENT 2025

📰 Update · Aug 6

AGENDA FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025

📰 Update · Nov 18

Rand Water appoints Centre for Biological Control to assist with biocontrol on the Vaal River Barrage

📰 Update · Nov 3

Week 3 Progress Report

📰 Update · Oct 29

October Extraction In Progress

📰 Update · Oct 14

Infant Alien Invasive Plants

📰 Update · Jul 15

Chairman Statement 2024

Suing the State to Save the Vaal River

Fresh Water

🇿🇦 South Africa

A committee of Vaal River residents has spent three decades hauling South African officials to court to stop raw sewage from destroying the country's third-longest river.

1,120kmVaal River length protected
170million litres/dayRaw/partially treated sewage entering the Vaal at height of Emfuleni collapse
150kcubic metersInvasive water lettuce removed by volunteer extraction teams
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