Don’t let the taps run dry in your community housing scheme

📆 2024/05/06 08:12:00

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📆 2024/05/06 08:12:00
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Community Housing Schemes should, as a matter of urgency, be making sure that they have a secure water supply system that is independent of the municipal infrastructure. That's the word from Andrew Shaefer, MD of leading property management company Trafalgar, who says: 'South Africa is a seriously water-scarce country as it receives about 40% less than the world average rainfall.

* Installing a solar pump or pumps so that water can be supplied from a borehole during municipal outages, if the complex has one;* Installing rainwater storage tanks and solar pumps, especially in complexes with extensive roof areas. 'In ST schemes it could reasonably be argued that any of steps should now be considered a necessary or non-luxurious improvement, but before going ahead the Trustees will still have to follow the procedure set out in Prescribed Management Rule 29 .

“Within that 30-day period, any owner can request a meeting to discuss the proposal and if that happens, the Trustees have to call a Special General Meeting and seek to get a special resolution passed before the project can proceed.”As for the financing needed to implement a backup water supply system, he says, this should ideally come from the scheme’s own Reserve Fund.

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