Cape Town’s old asbestos pipe, built for a short time in 1989, is now bursting at the seams. It’s trying to carry twice the sewage it was meant for, thanks to many more people living nearby. Nasty gas is eating away at the pipe, causing dangerous cracks and even huge sinkholes that swallow homes. This messy problem threatens to spill raw sewage onto beaches and forces families into tiny, hot metal boxes, highlighting a real crisis of bad planning and too many promises.
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