Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink has blasted Rand Water for carrying out maintenance work at the last minute.
He says had the water utility warned city authorities prior to residents of Soshanguve running out of water, they would have warned residents and made contingency plans."We have a serious problem with Rand Water in the sense that they do maintenance work at the last minute, they don't notify us and they don't share the telemetry levels with us," he said.
"So we not seeing the levels of their reservoirs and so we can't take preventative action. We find out about problems as they occur and that is the essence of it."
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