Driving force |
Pressure |
Impact |
Policy |
Technical |
Education |
| Population growth Urbanisation
Poverty
Institutional Capacity
Wealth |
- Inadequate refuse removal services
- Over consumption of natural resources
|
- Illegal dumping
- Litter
- Depletion of natural resources
|
- Improvement in service provision.
|
|
- Prevention of illegal dumping and littering promotional
programme.
|
| Domestic runoff (sewerage from
toilets, basins, baths and domestic appliances) |
- Carbon
- Phosphorous
- Nitrogen
- E.coli
|
- Increase in environmental health related diseases
- Deterioration of aquatic life
|
- Upgrading of service provision
- Prevention of vandalism
|
- Regular monitoring of waste water in relation to water
effluent standards
|
- Educating the community on the prevention of vandalism
- Community participation
|
| Industrial effluent (cooling and
wastewater, fluids containing wasted raw materials and products) |
|
- Increase in environmental health related diseases
- Deterioration of aquatic life
|
- Effluent by laws and policies
|
- Environmental auditing and implementation of industrial
environmental management plans
|
- Monitoring of waste water
|
Sewerage |
- A lack of sewers
- Insufficient bulk sewer capacity
|
- Increase in environmental health related diseases
- Deterioration of aquatic life
|
- Provision of adequate sanitation systems
|
|
- Upgrading of sewerage systems and provision of storm water
drains in northwest areas of Soweto.
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