Durban paddlers, lawyers take on eThekwini metro over sewage crisis

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Durban’s residents will carry out an independent water safety research project to force eThekwini metro to fix one of its biggest pollution sources that is pumping raw sewage into the Umgeni River. (Peter Titmuss/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Northern wastewater treatment works disgorges sewage into the Umgeni River, which flows into the sea at Durban, polluting the city’s popular beaches

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