The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality’s drive to eradicate VIP and bucket toilets has necessitated the extension of the capacity of the waste water treatment plant at Sterkwater to handle more volumes of waste water for treatment and purification at any point in time. The facility will now be able to handle a volume of 20 kilolitres of waste water, unlike in the past when it only carried 10 kilolitres. It was officially opened by executive mayor Thabo Manyoni during a site inspection tour last week. Having cost Mangaung R33.5-million, with R21.5-million of this spent on civil construction work and the rest … Continue reading Mangaung boosts waste water treatment