Tshwane to escalate Rand Water challenges to Minister
The City of Tshwane is set to hold an urgent meeting with the Water and Sanitation Minister on the Rand Water supply challenges.
This comes after Rand Water said it that its system is struggling to recover after a series of power failures.
The technical issue has meant thousands of residents in some parts of Tshwane have been without water for several days.
Load shedding and several power outages have caused tripping, reducing the volume of water in the metro.
City Utilities MMC Themba Fosi, however, says despite continuously engaging with Rand Water on the water supply issues they are not receiving any accurate or updated information from the water utility.
"Despite public commitments by Rand Water that they would continuously share their reservoir levels with the city this is also not happening, making it impossible for us to anticipate shortages," he says.
"We can only conclude that Rand Water is having internal supply issues and cannot balance supply to the city. The result is that as one reservoir recovers sufficiently another has its supply throttled totally and drops capacity."
Affected reservoirs include Klapperkop North and South, Lotus Gardens, Heuweloord, Mnandi South, Bakenkop East and West and Bakenkop Tower, Mooikloof, Sunderland Ridge, Salvokop, Rooihuiskraal.
"The city conducted tests on incoming Rand Water lines, and we have found 0% pressure on many of the reservoirs listed above."
"The city is arranging water tankers for the affected areas to help ease the strain of the taps currently being dry. Please look out for information from your ward councilors on when and where the water tankers will be placed."
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