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ENVIRONMENTALISTS have expressed concerns about the impact two big golf developments that recently received rezoning approval along the Garden Route will have on the drought-stricken area.

PLETTENBERG Bay could become the first municipality in Africa to employ an environmentally friendly way of disposing of its waste, if a recent presentation by a Johannesburg company to the mayoral committee bears fruit.

AS the 2011 municipal elections draw near, the mayors of Knysna and Bitou have both presented legacy budgets aimed at providing water security in their drought-stricken towns, and housing and services for the poorest sectors of the community.

THE Water Affairs Department and Bitou Municipality have signed a formal co-operation agreement that will see R20-million released to the drought-stricken Plettenberg Bay for the construction of its desalination plant.

AT least 6000 hectares of mainly indigenous fynbos have been destroyed by wildfires sweeping across the Garden Route, and firefighters were still battling last night to contain a number of massive blazes that were raging out of control.

THE Funda quarry outside Plettenberg Bay, which stopped operating last April, is to be rehabilitated in a move that looks set to improve the quality of water flowing into the Bitou River.

Municipal workers have apparently been authorized to use our critically low drinking water supply to spray the dump site.

REPRESENTATIVES of the agriculture, nature conservation, tourism, ratepayers and municipal sectors in Bitou have agreed to form a water users’ association in light of the prolonged drought.