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Emfuleni Local Municipality Water Quality

Drinking-water tracker: Poor

⚠ Concern recorded in cited drinking-water period

The historical tracker record contains a drinking-water compliance or monitoring concern. It does not by itself establish a current do-not-drink advisory.

Emfuleni Local Municipality in Gauteng has an Odyssey drinking-water tracker tier of Poor; programme-specific Blue Drop primary-source reconciliation for this row remains pending. In the historical cited record represented by this tracker, a drinking-water compliance or monitoring concern is stored. This is not a live do-not-drink advisory; confirm current status with the municipality or DWS. The wastewater risk label is mixed/supplementary tracker context and is not presented as a directly reconciled Green Drop result. A legacy 76.8% water-efficiency percentage is retained for audit continuity, but its exact measure basis is not treated as reconciled.

Metrics — cited source periods

Drinking-water tracker riskPoorPrimary source pending
Wastewater tracker riskCriticalPrimary source pending
Drinking-water assessment signalConcern in cited periodCited-period concern
Wastewater assessment signalConcern / non-compliance in cited period
Legacy distribution-efficiency percentage76.8%Legacy percentage · measure basis pending
Population served1 070 000
Legacy row audit-year field2023

CRITICAL: Non-revenue water of 76.8% — among the worst in the country. Emfuleni is the centre of the long-running Vaal sewage and infrastructure crisis. Raw sewage regularly discharged into the Vaal River affecting communities downstream. Municipality under financial distress compounding infrastructure neglect.

Programme provenance

Blue Drop: programme-specific primary source pending

Green Drop: programme-specific primary source pending

No Drop: direct primary citation · 2023

Current row citation — DWS No Drop 2023 + Emfuleni Annual Report 2024/25

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This tracked profile can combine Blue Drop, Green Drop, No Drop and supplementary sources from different periods. Programme labels above are only treated as directly sourced when the cited URL matches that DWS programme; otherwise primary-source reconciliation remains pending. Regulatory assessments describe the cited assessment period and are not live tap-water advisories. Follow current DWS or municipal advisories for immediate health guidance.