The City of Windhoek has instructed a Chinese garden project using untreated water from the Goreangab Dam to stop operations with immediate effect. The project is hereby instructed to vacate the plot without further delay or face eviction through the courts. The garden has been using the sewage water from the Goreangab Dam for irrigation purposes, despite a 2017 warning from the City to stop. The City’s Corporate Communication Officer, Scheifert Shigwedha said results from a laboratory showed that the untreated sewage water contain high faecal coliform. He ordered that all produce from the garden, including vegetables irrigated with the sewage water, are unfit for human consumption, and may have contributed to the recent Hepatitis E outbreak. Shigwedha said the project owners, Chinese Agriculture Project, were warned last year to stop using untreated water, and instead irrigate with treated water from the Old Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant. He stressed that the project has sub-leased land from a person the municipality had leased it to, but that person failed to rectify that breach of the contract.