{"id":67943,"date":"2022-06-15T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=67943"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:29:31","slug":"harmful-bacteria-at-beaches-along-durban-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/harmful-bacteria-at-beaches-along-durban-coastline\/","title":{"rendered":"HARMFUL BACTERIA AT BEACHES ALONG DURBAN COASTLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"67944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/harmful-bacteria-at-beaches-along-durban-coastline\/beachfront-780x470\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/beachfront-780x470-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"beachfront-780&amp;#215;470\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/beachfront-780x470-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67944\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/beachfront-780x470-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Neelam Rahim<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Residents and visitors to eThekwini have been warned by the eThekwini Municipality and water treatment service company Talbot that beaches along the Durban coastline and some rivers are unsafe for use. This could be the after-effect of the recent floods when the city\u2019s wastewater treatment facility and sanitation infrastructure were damaged.\u00a0<em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Radio Islam<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0speaks to Talbot Associate Director \u2013 Laboratories, Micole Martens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cE-coli is not a harmful bacteria but unfortunately when it is found in water it\u2019s one of the strongest indicators of sewerage or animal waste contamination.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe infection increases your exposure to other pathogens, which can obviously result in illness. Drinking water with high counts of E-Coli can cause a short term illness including diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches and at times vomiting,\u201d Micole says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We share light on beaches that were targeted for the testing that was done, and which resulted in closure after a test for high E-Coli levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Micole says, \u201cAll the main beaches in eThekwini were tested starting from Point beach through the South down to Battery Beach and Country beach around Sun Coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We have found that there has been a trend of high account E-Coli bacteria found in Country Club beach and Battery beach. This finding, unfortunately, does not call for immediate closure. We are merely trying to raise public awareness by putting the results out so people can make up their own opinion. At the same time, it puts a bit of pressure for accountability on the city to decide whether to close or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Micole also warns that if you are in and around Durban City, it would be best to avoid the Battery and Country beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ultimately Micole suggests that combating E-coli and getting the waters clean again comes down to a point where treatment plants need to be upgraded or renewed completely, which comes at a cost and in a budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more of everyone standing together and asking questions and holding the city more accountable on what are their next steps? And their plans to fixing the problem, says Micole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HARMFUL BACTERIA AT BEACHES ALONG DURBAN COASTLINE by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1287955465&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Neelam Rahim Residents and visitors to eThekwini have been warned by the eThekwini Municipality and water treatment service company Talbot that beaches along the Durban coastline and some rivers are unsafe for use. This could be the after-effect of the recent floods when the city\u2019s wastewater treatment facility and sanitation infrastructure were damaged.\u00a0Radio Islam\u00a0speaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/beachfront-780x470-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-hFR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 05:42:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}