Children warned against swimming in sewer ponds
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Grootfontein Mayor Talitha Garises has warned parents to always ensure that they know the whereabouts of their children, as many are said to be flocking to the town's sewer ponds to swim.
Garises cautioned that the children risk contracting waterborne diseases such as typhoid and cholera from swimming in the ponds.
There have been cases of children drowning in sewer ponds, such as the recently reported incident at Otavi, where a nine-year-old boy died in a sewer pond.