48-hour water outage to affect over 10 Johannesburg suburbs

Residents in parts of Johannesburg will face a 48-hour water outage starting Sunday, 12 November, due to crucial maintenance work.

Johannesburg Water confirmed that the water outage will affect all streets within Meadowlands extensions 1 to 12, parts of Orlando West, Dube, Mofolo North and Central, as well as Tshepo Themba Hospital, Meadowlands Hostel, and Dube Hostel.The water outage is essential for retrofitting the main Pressure-Reducing Valve chamber, which supplies water to the Meadowlands reservoir and the Tower and directly feeds to the Meadowlands area.

“It’s the self-inflicted pain of municipalities in Gauteng, because we warned them as early as June to take care of the water infrastructure,” Majodina stated.Majodina also noted the various challenges impacting water supply in the province, including illegal connections, mining activities, and poor credit management by municipalities. She urged municipalities to improve their infrastructure maintenance to prevent further water security issues.

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