Posts tagged with 'water'

 

Huge water crisis looming in Greater Pretoria area – several black residential areas, including squatter camps in the area can be left without water

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The Pretoria municipality calls on residents to use water sparingly to avoid an enormous crisis.

The city’s storage tanks reached dangerously low levels due to high demand during the heat wave, which lasted several days.

According to the government’s Twitter message, which only reaches about 60% of residents, residents are urged not to waste water.

Some areas are already experiencing water supply disruptions, but the municipality is failing to communicate effectively with all residents, nor does it have a sound plan of action to penalize offenders who use water poorly without appropriate measures.

The water level of the Garsfontein storage tank, which is the largest and situated in the central distribution point, has dropped drastically due to high demand.

The Garsfontein storage tank struggles to maintain the 45% level, and was below the 40% level as demand at the Koedoesnek and Elarduspark tanks continued to surge.

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Call to save water in Gauteng: Day Zero is becoming more and more a reality after no rain falls and dam levels drop dangerously

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Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (DWS), expressed her concern after the rain stayed away and dam levels dropped dangerously fast. She made a plight that people must immediately start saving water to avert a possible Day Zero in Gauteng. She announced in Johannesburg on Monday that Gautengers use an average of 320 liters of water per person per day, while the acceptable world standard is 170 liters per person per day.

In recent weeks, the Transvaal and Free State experienced a prolonged heat wave, which caused water consumption to rise sharply and evaporation in the large storage dams was much faster than predicted.

With the Vaal Dam already under 50% of its capacity, and other dams having as little as 20% in content, there is reason to worry.

The inflow of water from the Lesotho Highlands has been temporarily halted to provide essential maintenance to the tunnels. The maintenance is expected to be completed by the end of Nove
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All I can say is ‘God help us’ – Photos of Vaal River that shows how raw sewage is polluting our drinking water

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Photos of the Vaal River in Vereeniging at 06h00 today 24th Oct 2019.
This is our only Vaal River. There is no substitute and it will soon be impossible to fix.
If you think no electricity is an inconvenience then wait for no water.

3 days and you’re dead.

This is a national emergency people and the useless, pathetic and uninformed politicians don’t seem to consider this an emergency.

All I can say is ‘God help us’.

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Empty promises leave Free State residents fuming, Mayor’s house burnt down due to frustration on water crisis

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Mayor Mamiki Mokoena, of the Nketoana municipality, which includes Reitz, Petrus Steyn, Arlington and Lindley in the Free State, house in Petrus Steyn has been destroyed after angry residents burnt it down to show their anger towards the shortage of water in the areas.

Residents’ anger over the ongoing water crisis has apparently boiled over after no running water has been available for a week. Mokoena allegedly arranged for two tankers to deliver water to her father, Benedict Nakedi, over the weekend for an alleged family gathering. This while the rest of the township’s residents had to cope without water. These actions apparently contributed to the residents’ anger.

Heleen Müller, FF Plus councilor in Petrus Steyn says that the water crisis was apparently caused by a broken water pump that was temporarily replaced by a smaller water pump that could not supply the necessary amount of water. She argues that the crisis was brought to
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Now taxpayers must suffer for maladministration and corrupted Govan Mbeki Municipality – Taps run dry in Bethal after municipality fails to pay R87.7m water bill

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The taps ran dry in Bethal, Mpumalanga, in December when Rand Water Board reduced water pressure by 40% for non-payment of an R87.7-million back-bill owed by the Govan Mbeki Municipality.

More than half the town is reckoned to be without water.

Residents are furious because they have paid their water bills, and want to know what the municipality has done with the money. Many suspect corruption is at the root of the problem.

Last Wednesday students at the Jim van Tonder School in Bethal were sent home because there was no water for showering, toilets and drinking. The town’s abattoir has also shut down. Hennie Rademeyer runs an ice factory in the town and he has had to shut his business down because he cannot get water.

Residents are planning a march on the municipal headquarters next week to protest against maladministration and the apparently cavalier attitude displayed by the mayor and senior city councillors to the water crisis in th
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