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Tsomo River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Tsomo River is a river in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is a tributary of the Great Kei River. The river has been impacted by pollution from an unfinished waste water treatment project that has been left abandoned and vandalised. Researchers have found instances of drug resistant bacteria in Tsomo river water.

Flows through: South Africa.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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