Water shortages are plaguing several areas across South Africa, and criminal syndicates are taking advantage.
Several parts of South Africa are struggling with water shortages as taps dry up for weeks at a time – and criminal syndicates, dubbed ‘tanker mafias’, are benefitting from this as they try their best to keep the crisis going.
While many of the country’s authorities and regulators of water provisions in South Africa have blamed load shedding, climate change, capacity, and even wasteful residential consumption as the main culprits for the crisis, experts have said the root cause is simply poor governance – with authorities neglecting the deterioration of water infrastructure.
“The water they provide to residents is taken straight from dams and rivers – not quality controlled or taken from clean water supply points,” he said. “We can say that places like Johannesburg Water are a perfect example of state failure at a local level.”
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