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Empowering Communities About Water Safety

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)Ref: https://www.csir.co.za/empowering-communities-about-water-safety

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Collected on 21 September 2026

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This is a CSIR news article about research into groundwater quality in Stinkwater, Gauteng, and related community water-safety education. It reports that untreated groundwater contains chemical and biological pollutants, including faecal indicator organisms and potentially unsafe nitrate levels, and that CSIR researchers are teaching the community how to make its drinking water safe.

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Empowering communities about water safety

The CSIR is making water-safety teaching available to the community of Stinkwater, helping people learn how to make their drinking water safe in response to groundwater contamination findings.

Who it is for: The community of Stinkwater
How to act on it: Participate in the teaching provided by CSIR researchers in Stinkwater; the document gives no further access instructions.

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Researchers from the CSIR are teaching the community of Stinkwater, in Gauteng, how to make their drinking water safe.

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Gauteng

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https://www.csir.co.za/empowering-communities-about-water-safety

Key Takeaways

CSIR researchers are teaching the Stinkwater community about making drinking water safe
Groundwater study found chemical and biological pollutants
Water samples were collected from hand-dug wells over a two-year period
High faecal indicator organisms and potentially unsafe nitrate levels were found
Stinkwater, Gauteng
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Wouter le Roux
Lisa Schaefer
Karen Nortje