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Defend Truth

Anthony Turton

Professor Anthony Turton is a water expert with the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State.

Latest Work

Anthony Turton

28 November 2024

The potent weapon of non-payment as resistance in South Africa, then and now

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Anthony Turton

2 September 2024

Gauteng urgently needs to reduce water consumption by 10% or face Day Zero

5 min

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Anthony Turton

23 July 2024

The advancing onslaught of toxic red algae blooms in our freshwater systems

5 min

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Anthony Turton

12 July 2024

Despite vagaries of nature, water security can be achieved through clearly communicated, coherent policy decisions

5 min

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Anthony Turton

26 June 2024

Changing frontiers of wastewater treatment — ignore nature, or embrace nature-based solutions?

5 min

3

Anthony Turton

19 June 2024

Platform for a water-secure Gauteng is a rebirth of hope, the best shot we will ever have

5 min

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Anthony Turton

11 April 2024

We ignore nature at our peril — how Centurion Lake became a man-made disaster

5 min

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Anthony Turton

26 March 2024

New cyanobacteria discoveries point to alarming changes in our already distressed waterways

5 min

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SA faces serious human health risks if we continue discharging toxic sewage into waterways

DISCHARGE CRISIS OP-ED

18 March 2024

SA faces serious human health risks if we continue discharging toxic sewage into waterways

5 min

3

Anthony Turton

20 June 2023

The simplest solution to SA’s cholera crisis is fixing our broken sewerage systems

6 min

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Anthony Turton

30 May 2023

Our slow-onset sewage disaster is on the verge of becoming a tsunami that will overwhelm us

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