Driving force |
Pressure |
Impact |
Policy |
Technical |
Education |
- Population growth
- Urbanisation
- Poverty
- Institutional Capacity
- Wealth
|
- Inadequate refuse removal services
- Over consumption of natural resources
|
- 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) |
- Ammonia,
- Fluoride
- Nitrate
Sulphate,
Phosphate
Calcium carbonate = high pH |
- 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. |
