Cape Town –Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Buyelwa Sonjica has given tap water in all 2010 FIFA World Cup host cities a clean bill of health.
Releasing the 2010 Host Cities Drinking Water Quality Management Audit Report on Wednesday,Sonjica said the world can rest assured that tap water in all host cities is safe to drink.
The audit used the Blue Drop Certification System,an incentive-based regulation system which the department introduced in September 2008 to rate municipalities across the country.
All of the host cities scored 95 percent under the certification system and were awarded Blue Drop Status.
Johannesburg (98.39 percent) and Cape Town (98.18 percent) got the highest scores,while Rustenburg (95.1 percent),Port Elizabeth (95.08 percent) and Bloemfontein (95.05 percent) ranked the lowest.
Over the last six months the country’s overall South African drinking water quality was measured as 96 percent,an improvement over the 2009 Blue Drop Report when the country’s towns and municipalities scored on average 93.3 percent.
Relative to other countries South Africa have safe tape water.
“You go to other countries and at the hotels there’s a tag there –don’t drink from the taps. We’ve never had that,”said Sonjica
