South Africans are drilling boreholes at a pace not seen in years as households look for alternatives to unreliable municipal supply, rising tariffs and infrastructure failures, but many homeowners are doing so without meeting the legal requirements – and in some cases, without realising they are breaking the law.
This is according to law expert Cor van Deventer, director at law firm Van Deventer Dowlath & Marx Incorporated. He says the surge in private boreholes has created a growing compliance gap evidenced by municipalities tightening enforcement and recent incidents with serious legal and financial consequences.
“There’s a perception that if you own the land, you can drill wherever…
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