{"id":203958,"date":"2025-08-04T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-raw-sewage-crisis-at-ai-ais-resort-confirmed-by-ministry\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:14:50","slug":"namibia-raw-sewage-crisis-at-ai-ais-resort-confirmed-by-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-raw-sewage-crisis-at-ai-ais-resort-confirmed-by-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Raw Sewage Crisis At Ai-Ais Resort Confirmed By Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has responded to a recent outcry about mishandling of sewage at the Ai-Ais Resort.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">A statement confirms allegations that sewage was directed into a riverbed to remedy a blockage at the campsite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;We confirm that Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has reported a serious drainage blockage at the campsite, which resulted in wastewater affecting ablution facilities and field kitchens. As an emergency response, the wastewater was temporarily redirected to a nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040341.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has responded to a recent outcry about mishandling of sewage at the Ai-Ais Resort. A statement confirms allegations that sewage was directed into a riverbed to remedy a blockage at the campsite. &#8220;We confirm that Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has reported a serious drainage blockage at the campsite, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,52028,8743,3723,6857,4706,724,257,12278,12389,21128,254],"class_list":["post-203958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aiais","tag-confirmed","tag-crisis","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-raw","tag-resort","tag-sewage","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}