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Period / scope
Blue Drop 2023 full entity records + 2025 Green Drop full national assessment + Blue/No Drop progress assessments released 31 March 2026; W4 records Green Drop row-level IRIS retrieval as source-unavailable without promoting legacy metro scores
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Ngwathe Local Municipality Water Quality

Drinking-water tracker: Critical

⚠ 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.

Ngwathe Local Municipality in Free State has an Odyssey drinking-water tracker tier of Critical; 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.

Metrics — cited source periods

Drinking-water tracker riskCriticalPrimary source pending
Wastewater tracker riskCriticalPrimary source pending
Drinking-water assessment signalConcern in cited periodCited-period concern
Wastewater assessment signalConcern / non-compliance in cited period
Water-efficiency metricNot availablePrimary source pending
Population served120 000
Legacy row audit-year field2023

AfriForum 2024 found Parys drinking water unsafe for human consumption and Heilbron sewage polluted. Both potable water and wastewater stress in the same local authority. Free State had zero Blue Drop certified municipalities in 2023 and no clean AfriForum sewage results.

Programme provenance

Blue Drop: programme-specific primary source pending

Green Drop: programme-specific primary source pending

No Drop: programme-specific primary source pending

Current row citation — DWS No Drop 2023 + AfriForum 2024

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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.