Tshwane water
Tshwane sent out unchlorinated tap water for three weeks and 408 people fell ill, most of them small children. Every warning, test and finding in one place.
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The Ministries of Health and of Water and Sanitation, with Gauteng provincial government and the City of Tshwane, told residents not to use tap water even for brushing teeth or bathing. Tshwane appointed Rand Water to help fix the Bronkhorstspruit plant but gave no date for when tap water will be safe again.
The official illness count rose to at least 595 people sickened in Tshwane's Region 7 between 7 and 19 October, up from the 408 figure reported earlier. Lab tests found four different bugs, norovirus, campylobacter, shigella and sapovirus, in 11 of 17 specimen batches.
Tshwane had at least three water-quality reports before the crisis, and never warned residents the water was unsafe even after boiling.
At least 408 people, most of them children under four, fell ill after the Bronkhorstspruit plant supplied water without chlorine from 24 September to 14 October.