Let them flow - new urban guidelines urge stronger action to protect urban rivers

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Urban rivers Speaking at the launch of the guideline document Tools to determine enforce ment-driven rehabilitation objectives on urban river reaches, WRC CEO Dhesigen Naidoo said: “What the WRC wants to do as our contribution are projects like this one, giving rise to support materials that can be used by authorities and the rest of us who care about our rivers to fix them up in the right and responsible wa y.” He was addressing a gathering of people who had shown just how much they care about rivers by getting cold, wet and tired for the sake of raising awareness about the state of urban waterways. These were the intrepid souls who had taken part in this year’s Peninsula Paddle on a day when the Cape of Storms was threatening to unleash galeforce winds and torrential rain. They had started out in pitch darkness at the mouth of Zandvlei, at Muizenberg on the False Bay coast, and had paddled, portaged or dragged their canoes across the Cape Peninsula to the mouth of the Salt River on the Table Bay coast.

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