Over four-fifths (82.4%) of South African households now have access to piped water.
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While there has been a significant increase in the number of households in South Africa with access to water since the dawn of democracy, an activist organisation advocating for water access rights has raised concerns about the quality of water being received by South Africans and the state of the country’s water infrastructure.
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