Johannesburg Water refutes claims of a closed valve causing water outage, attributing shortages to system incidents.
Johannesburg Water has debunked the initial claims about a closed valve, pointing to system incidents.) said that although the majority of its systems are gradually recovering, residents are not out of the woods yet as two systems have experienced setbacks.
For the last 10 days, the other systems in many parts of Johannesburg and several other municipalities in Gauteng and the North West have been affected.As a result of the situation, Randburg residents staged a peaceful protest in Blairgowrie on Tuesday afternoon against the crisis, and they vowed to continue their protest on Wednesday.
The DA leader in Gauteng, Solly Msimanga, will visit an old age home in Blairgowrie on Thursday for a community meeting regarding the crisis.“It came out in the meeting that Rand Water has not apparently opened up a massive valve. Once they did, water started flowing through,” said Ward 99 councillor Nicole van Dyk after the meeting.So far things are looking somewhat promising. The big take away from the meeting with the mayor tonight was A closed valve on Rand Water side.
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