Improving municipal wastewater management in coastal cities

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MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER The tour was part of a five-day training course on “Improving municipal wastewater management in coastal cities”, presented by UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and the UNEP/ GPA Co-ordination Office, both based in the Netherlands. The International Ocean Institute at the University of the Western Cape - as an existing member of the UN/ DOALOS Train-Sea-Coast Programme - facilitated the South African presentation of the course, and arranged the field trip to Khayelitsha. Participants expecting to be given a tour of high-tech wastewater treat-Improving Municipal Wastewater Management in Coastal Cities The Khayelitsha residents must have thought this the strangest ‘township tour’ they’d ever encountered. Instead of a group of snap-happy foreign tourists visiting their homes, markets and shebeens, this rather studious-looking bunch were only interested in their toilets! Top: Solonzi Mzamo, an environmental health practitioner for the City of Cape Town, led the field trip to Khayelitsha.

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