South Africa's critical wastewater treatment plants are suffering from years of neglect, and the situation is only getting worse, Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke has warned.

Maluleke - who last week published her annual report on the state of SA's municipalities - said that while many old plants were decaying, municipalities were not in state to build new ones. 

"The problem is getting worse," she told a media briefing organised by the SA National Editors' Forum. 

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