The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape has called on the Green Scorpions to investigate raw sewage flowing into the Fish River at Cradock.
The party's Midland's Constituency Leader, Retief Odendaal, said this will place the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
He said he visited the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality's wastewater treatment plant in Cradock on Wednesday "and was shocked to find it completely shut down", with no one on site.
Odendaal said that sewage continues to flow into the non-functional plant and is then channelled untreated into the Great Fish River.
"The discharge of raw sewage into a natural water resource is illegal in terms of the Constitution, the National Environmental Management Act No. 107 of 1998 and the National Water Act No. 36 of 1998," he said.
Odendaal said that problems at the plant have been going on for years.
The Department of Water Affairs and Sanitation and the Local Municipality were approached for comment.
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