The Toilet, formerly known as Durban ..

Durban rivers are polluted with “health threatening levels of E.coli bacteria” – New South African speak for “the local Victims of Apartheid have shat the place broken.”

The feces levels in the rivers are “hundreds of times over the recommended safety limits for drinking, washing, swimming or canoeing,” according to the insipid dripping liberal the Mercury newspaper.

One can only wonder if there is any connection between the public toilet known as Durban and the Monday announcement by the “eThekwini” (that must be a Zulu word for “outside shithouse”) Municipality's Water and Sanitation department to residents in several areas north of Durban that they face a "slow down" in their water supply for at least two days this week.

Don’t you just love these New South African words? Eskom has “load shedding”, and now water supplies are subject to “slow downs”. Ha. They don’t fool me.

Those words are just code for “crumbling infrastructure caused by getting rid of Whitey.”

You want proof? Well, the eThekwini Municipality has been singled out as of the "most significant" polluters of some rivers because of the failure to repair burst sewer lines and poor management at some waste-water treatment plants, according to a report conducted by Pietermaritzburg-based river scientist Mark Graham, on behalf of the municipality.

His report describes some of the worst affected rivers as little more than "open sewers". Oh, you mean like the streets of Durban itself?

Apart from the real possibility of gastro-intestinal sicknesses such as "Dusi-guts", his report also points to the potential for spreading more serious waterborne diseases - including hepatitis, typhoid and dysentery. Charming.

Let’s hope some silly liberal foreign tourists take up the invitation shown in SAA incoming flights of the wonders of swimming and canoeing in Durban! Ha!

In the lower reaches of the Mbokodweni River, south of Durban, there were reports of children developing welts or sores on their skin from playing in the highly polluted water, according to Graham’s report.

Where the Mlazi River flows into the concrete Umlaas Canal section, he found "geysers" of raw sewage bubbling up from the bottom of test samples that showed readings of 280 000 counts of E.coli/100ml of water during his latest 2007 survey.

Graham reported similar high readings of E.coli to authorities during the 2006 survey, but it appeared that "little had been done" to fix the problem.

Graham's report follows disclosures published in the Mercury on Wednesday focusing on at least one significant leak from a broken sewer line at the Umhlatuzana River, and reports that organisers of the Dusi canoe Marathon were considering calling off future events if E-coli levels were found to be too high. Many paddlers had come down with tummy bugs since the recent marathon.

By The Real Realist

see Mail & Gaurdian's article here