Unchlorinated water sickens 800 in Bronkhorstspruit; residents resort to polluted river

A water treatment plant in Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa, supplied unchlorinated water for three weeks, causing over 800 illnesses. Residents are collecting drinking water from a polluted river due to lack of safe alternatives. The incident highlights infrastructure failure and public health risk, with uncertainty over the duration of the contamination and the full extent of the outbreak.

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