On a follow up insert on Carte Blanche on Sunday the 6th of March 2011, some possible solutions were shown to viewers of how to clean up the Acid Mine Drainage Problem plagueing South Africa.

"The water problem, the mine effluent problem is not a water problem it's a salt problem. All of the technologies can manage - or many of them can produce clean water. What differentiates us is that we can usefully employ the salts and that is critical." - Richard Doyle (Managing Director: Earth)

Of the 3 solutions shown, one of them by a company called Earth looks to be the most promising. Richard Doyle's start-up company is turning the salts into fertiliser and explosives and attracting a lot of interest from overseas. What's best about his solutions thus far is that it creates it's own income and will not cost the taxpayer the money (we hope) to fix the AMD problem.
So far the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan has set aside R225 Million of taxpayers money to deal with the Acid Mine Drainage Problem but it should not be the taxpayer who fits the bill for fixing this serious issue. We remain firm that the Mining Companies who created the problem and made Billions or Trillions of Dollars from South African soil are the one's who must be made to pay the bill for the cleanup and perhaps the solution above is one way forward.

Now that the AMD issue is out in the open we have the usual rigmaroll of politicians wasting time talking and not doing. Even the taxpayers money set aside thus far will seemingly only show something concrete in a year's time and the money set aside is nowhere near enough to even scratch the surface. Time is ticking and the mine drainage continues to flow down our rivers, streams and into our groundwater.