{"id":247366,"date":"2026-10-16T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-is-construction-at-the-lesotho-highlands-water-project-polluting-rivers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:00:23","slug":"lesotho-is-construction-at-the-lesotho-highlands-water-project-polluting-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-is-construction-at-the-lesotho-highlands-water-project-polluting-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Is Construction At the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Polluting Rivers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em> The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority will refer suspected pollution for testing <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A contractor responsible for work on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project was suspended for 18 days last year for dumping acidic and oily wastewater into nearby rivers and the Katse reservoir.<\/li>\n<li>Now residents along the Sekoai River near a construction site are reporting seeing suspected pollution in the waterways.<\/li>\n<li>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority says it will refer evidence of suspected pollution to the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610160085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority will refer suspected pollution for testing A contractor responsible for work on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project was suspended for 18 days last year for dumping acidic and oily wastewater into nearby rivers and the Katse reservoir. Now residents along the Sekoai River near a construction site are reporting seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690616:d2edc9c74c1d50341f224433a28d4448:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7601,11327,4717,1407,257,30075,6504,7865,254,6722],"class_list":["post-247366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-construction","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-polluting","tag-project","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690616:d2edc9c74c1d50341f224433a28d4448:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247366","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=247366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}