Water project needs support

Litterboom, an initiative committed to cleaning river streams and oceans, hopes for greater assistance from local authorities and community involvement which they believe is key in protecting marine life. Litterboom project media manager Casey Pratt said the initiative’s staff regularly faced a number of challenges, including:Invasive plants such as water hyacinth which has emerged as a problem in Umlazi River;Adverse weather conditions which disrupt the cleaning efforts;Plastic pollution where greater volumes of plastic have been collected;Severely polluted rivers where there is an…